This must be a map for bans of sales of new vehicles, not banning all fossil fuel vehicles.
I think it’s dumb that we’ve got plans to phase out personal gasoline vehicles, but we don’t have plans to electrify the industrial sector or the transportation industries.
As an Australian I don’t find this beautiful at all 😠 We only have a single tiny territory (our equivalent of America’s DC) with any phase out plans. Our government is just so incredibly beholden to fossil fuel interests. It’s incredibly frustrating.
But Japan is one that surprises me, considering how slow their domestic industry has been to adopt electric cars compared to China and Korea. I thought they were going in on hydrogen, despite it not really making serious progress.
(Although an obligatory !fuckcars@lemmy.world and reminder that even EVs are terrible for the environment and are much worse societally than public transport and bikes.)
Yeah this really sucks.
Especially the proliferation of American style ute’s in recent years, like we’re the only two places in the world that will tolerate the emissions.
I’m also surprised about China, not for any other reason than their track record on pollution hasn’t been great.
I’m not particularly surprised about China. They’re making big advances in this area. Their continued growth in carbon emissions is alongside growth in renewables because their total energy usage is growing insanely fast.
With cars specifically, think about cars you’ve seen on the road here in Australia. Of the EVs, where have you seen them from? Apart from Teslas, the vast majority I’ve seen have been either Chinese or Korean.
Ethiopia is so jacked! Ghana really impresses me, hopefully they hasten it.
Its sounds odd for me that some countries plan banning fuel-powered cars in ~30 years.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think there is much left to ban by then.
It promotes investing into electric cars tight now. Without the bans, some investors might be hopeful to still profit beyond the 30s. But with the ban, it’s clear for all investors to invest in electric cars.
I can see how hybrids will probably be a thing for a very long time, for people in very cold and remote places.
But yeah, the EV revolution is a fact. For any country that has proper electric infrastructure and who doesn’t have protections for legacy car manufacturers, EV’s are cheaper and have lower operating/maintenance costs.
In Canada, the gas model is ~$20,000 the hybrid is ~$30,000 and the electric model is ~$40,000. I keep hearing that EVs are supposed to be cheaper, but I haven’t seen it yet.
Due to protection against cheap Chinese cars.
In China, you can get an EV below $10K.
For countries without domestic car manufacturers,.Chinese EV’s are by far the cheapest cars to import.
