Re:New two-stroke engine design could help keep internal com...
by petre on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:54AM
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Western Europe will do it as means to incentivize auto sales after the pandemic. Car sales fell 80% in Europe. President Macron has already announced such a plan yesterday. This includes infrastructure:
"The number of battery charge-points will be tripled to 100,000 by the end of next year."
Re:New two-stroke engine design could help keep internal com...
by xyzzyz on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:16PM
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Lots of European cities are broke at this point and have much bigger problems to fix right now than EV charging stations and if private companies would install them across the cities, the charging costs would be high enough to make EVs ownership unappealing.
These European city planners should have listened to Strongtowns and other New Urbanists, and instead of encouraging suburban development style which makes prohibitively expensive for cities to maintain streets, instead followed the dense urban pattern of American cities.
Lots of European cities are broke at this point and have much bigger problems to fix right now than EV charging stations and if private companies would install them across the cities, the charging costs would be high enough to make EVs ownership unappealing.
Add the fact that EVs here are more expensive than in the US and you have the reason why most EVs right now are only owned by upper class people who can afford to have their own private charging station on their own property.
There's a reason diesel ICEs, as dirty as they are, are still so popular in Europe. They're cheap to run.
Ironically, as green as it may be, Europe will fall behind China and the US at mass EV adoption.
Unless they'd be given away for free, expecting EVs to take over the market here in 5 to 8 years is dreaming at best.