Re:Germany refuses to agree to EU ban on new fossil fuel car...
by 7952 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @03:36PM
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Car manufacturers have made an artform out of selling questionable tradeoffs to customers. It doesn't need to be technically perfect (like an SUV). It just needs to sell.
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Re:Germany refuses to agree to EU ban on new fossil fuel car...
by avianlyric on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @03:51PM
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It not a question of technically perfect or otherwise. It’s just a pure question of cost.
When one approach is half as efficient as the other, it hard to see how you build a cost competitive product using the less efficient approach. Especially when the more efficient approach is already approaching price parity, with a much cheaper technology (diesel from the ground is much cheaper than diesel from the air).