Re:The Breakneck Rise of China’s Colossus of Electric-Car Ba...
by jacobolus on Sunday February 04, 2018 @06:40PM
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> [...] we ought to be more excited about the DIY home kits for electric vehicles instead of the Teslas and big automakers.
Can you explain why? Who is “we”? Are you anticipating that a sizable fraction of the 1+ billion gas cars in the world are going to be converted by DIY home kits? I personally can’t imagine hundreds of millions of DIY conversions (or even professional conversions).
Practically what I care about is (a) getting fossil fuel burning out of my neighborhood (and out of places where people live, in general), and (b) dramatically reducing the amount of CO2 we put into the atmosphere, on a global scale. As far as I can tell the way we will get there is by sales of new electric cars largely supplanting gas cars over the next 2 decades or so (also pickup trucks, buses, delivery trucks, freight shipping trucks, etc.).
Policymakers can speed this up by tightening emissions standards for all vehicles, banning ICE cars from some roads or areas, increasing fuel taxes, subsidizing electric cars, funding basic research in battery technology, etc.
Can you explain why? Who is “we”? Are you anticipating that a sizable fraction of the 1+ billion gas cars in the world are going to be converted by DIY home kits? I personally can’t imagine hundreds of millions of DIY conversions (or even professional conversions).
Practically what I care about is (a) getting fossil fuel burning out of my neighborhood (and out of places where people live, in general), and (b) dramatically reducing the amount of CO2 we put into the atmosphere, on a global scale. As far as I can tell the way we will get there is by sales of new electric cars largely supplanting gas cars over the next 2 decades or so (also pickup trucks, buses, delivery trucks, freight shipping trucks, etc.).
Policymakers can speed this up by tightening emissions standards for all vehicles, banning ICE cars from some roads or areas, increasing fuel taxes, subsidizing electric cars, funding basic research in battery technology, etc.