| > people that don't like when things get "verboten". And there are reasons for that. I think cars which make use of renewable energies would “win” regardless whether we ban combustion engines or not. But I have a problem with bureaucrats who make a deep cut in the way we live without having a public discourse about the topic first. We did not have any public discourse about this topic (this is also a failure of the opposition; the CDU should've pushed the topic); and there were only a few articles in niche magazines like the ADAC. Basically, the whole topic was buried with spin techniques. Maybe you are old enough to remember when the very same bureaucrats decided to remove trams from cities without asking the population. The reasoning was that we need more space for cars. I'm seeing a similar thing here, as the politicians now act like they have the foresight of which technology will win: EVs will win. Not hydrogen. Not synthetic fuels. No, EV must be the winner. And by cutting off the other technologies, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I'd like to see experts from the different industries actually being incorporated in this decision-making instead. Make the law technology neutral and only provide a technological framework. Let the producers of hydrogen cars, synthetic fuel cars and EVs compete against each other. Don't micromanage. I would find it very possible for hydrogen and then synthetic fuels to find their places too, but as I said: when you cut this off too early, we will never see what's possible. A different thought: There are probably many indirect effects on EVs too, which make it hard to say how much CO2 each technology is producing over a long time span. We should tackle energy production too; because an EV which drives with coal-produced electricity is useless too. The progressive parties like SPD and the Greens are totally failing here. I remember when Germany was the leader in solar and PV technology, circa 2012. Good times. |