Absolutely ridiculously unambitious plan. I thought the 2035 deadline was already void of any ambition or urgency. Imho it should have been 2030 or earlier... Every single year counts, we are past several tipping points already. We don't have the luxury to sit on our hands for another 10+ years, as much as people would love to close theirs eyes and pretend that all of this isn't really happening...
It isn't even about the climate anymore. The cheap EVs are going to be built; they're just going to be Chinese. China is currently at 50% BEV and PHEV and pushing upwards to 59% in some months. Imagine looking forward 10 whole years and thinking you're going to be selling new consumer ICE vehicles, shy of massive market-sheltering tariffs and the loss of the global markets.
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Absolutely ridiculously unambitious plan. I thought the 2035 deadline was already void of any ambition or urgency. Imho it should have been 2030 or earlier... Every single year counts, we are past several tipping points already. We don't have the luxury to sit on our hands for another 10+ years, as much as people would love to close theirs eyes and pretend that all of this isn't really happening...
It isn't even about the climate anymore. The cheap EVs are going to be built; they're just going to be Chinese. China is currently at 50% BEV and PHEV and pushing upwards to 59% in some months. Imagine looking forward 10 whole years and thinking you're going to be selling new consumer ICE vehicles, shy of massive market-sheltering tariffs and the loss of the global markets.