Yes.
The question isn’t whether or not EVs will be the future - they will.
The question is who will lead the market in them, and the Republicans are effectively working to ensure that it will not be the US - it’ll be China.
Pretty sure the future isn’t every person carrying around multiple tons of steel with them every time they need some milk. The push isn’t to full sized electric cars, it’s to electric bikes and micro cars. But yes, China is doing both and the US auto Industry will collapse because it doesn’t care that people don’t want to drive something bigger than a tank.
It’s always so mind boggling how (most of) US cities are designed just for cars. And if you are used to that, I get its hard to even imagine the alternative. I like the bike centric cities in Europe, or the amazing public transport in places like Japan or Korea.
It was a conscious decision. After the Second World War, the US needed somewhere to shift all of the manufacturing that had been built for the war effort. So cities were deliberately designed to keep houses away from jobs away from shops, so you need a car to get around, inducing a market for the personal car that never should have existed. People forget that before the car, there were cities across America that were walkable and had streetcars. The current state of affairs was never preordained. It’s the result of decades of corporate influence over government decision making.
In the case you described it might be autonomous delivery systems. Why leave the house and drive around town when a little delivery drone on wheels can deliver it at the same time?
Weird way to spell trains.
Trains, metro, trams, and occasionally busses for mass transit. Bikes and microcars for individual transit.
I wish the US auto industry would compete and innovate instead of going all in on regulatory capture
I don’t think they have any choice.
I have zero doubt that any visionaries or innovators who might’ve made it to the executive ranks have been long since weeded out so that they wouldn’t make the poseurs and weasels and manipulators look bad. So the poseurs and weasels and manipulators are all that’s left. And their skill set is entirely built around taking advantage of systems other people built - they couldn’t build one themselves if their lives depended on it.
InI’m afraid that train already left the station. It also leaves EU behind. The only thing that protects Western industry today are automobile industry protecting tariffs.I mean… With the US falling as a leader, does it even matter? It’s juts a stab to a bleeding beast.
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MAGAts are taking us all down with them.
Agreed, but they don’t care about that. They’re only interested in the oil industry.
Cool. For once they do something good. Fuck the auto industry.
EV wont solve the climate issues it just delays it, its mass transportation the more buses you have it takes alot more cars off the road.
What if we had really long electric vehicles? Possibly ones that ran on pre-laid tracks. 🤔
Diminishing the US globally is their whole deal right now. Makes sense when you consider how much Russia is bankrolling them.
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