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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by TacticalCoder on Thursday July 14, 2022 @05:36AM (#32093866)
> As long as an ICE is a feature people want to their car to have it won't matter that a battery is cheaper.

The EU has voted a complete ban of the sale of new ICE and hybrid cars by 2035. It doesn't matter if ICE is a feature people want or not: it's not going to be an option.

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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by someweirdperson on Thursday July 14, 2022 @04:37PM (#32101131)
The point was that price is not a relevant criterion. There may be others reasons.

The EU isn't the whole world. Also, the EU bans new dinosaur-burning cars from 2035. Cars with ICEs running on something else (synthetic) will most likely remain legal.

For ICEs to fully vanish from the market it would take a complete ban or some disruptive technology that works better for all use cases, to make them completely non-desirable for everyone.

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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by 988747 on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:01AM (#32094345)
Unless EU as whole ceases to exist thanks to passing laws that go against what people want :) Which is what I'm hoping for.
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