Meanwhile legacy US automakers are busy trying to bury their heads in the sand again. I’m sure that will end well for the US economy and consumers.
It’s a textbook example of protectionism ending up with industry leaders slowly going bankrupt. It didn’t start with EVs, but it might end with them.
They’re essentially forcing the US car market to become Cuba. The entire American car fleet in 2030 will probably be composed of decaying 2010’s cars still. It’s a stupid self-embargo, and will only delay their bankruptcy.
Aye, but they’re still cars.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good!
Cars suck. Huge cars suck more. But without the biking infrastructure and culture of, say, the Dutch, and the public transit options of, say, the Japanese, that it’ll be hard to get people in small cities, suburban, and rural areas off cars.
I went from a bolt EV with a 108 mile commute across Oregon to a bike in the Netherlands. Didn’t touch a car for a year. I could get everywhere by bike, carried my Xmas tree home via bike, and even on rural rides the culture and rules mean cars wait and work around you. NS Rail for all else. Its incredible.
You can not hope to replace cars until bikes are the cultural, social, and urban planning focus of private transportation.
I agree with everything you’ve said there, but I don’t see how “electric cars taking over the world” has got anything to do with getting people onto bikes.
So, for me, it’s not ‘perfect being the enemy of good’, because in this sense the news is not good.
I don’t own a car because public transit is sufficient 90% of the time. I rent for the other 10% and always take an EV, they are so much fun to drive and the technology has improved significantly in the last 10 years. Great news!
I just got mine a month ago.
