| > Most of the energy for BEVs is produced from fossil fuels as well. Globally yes, but in many places where there is lots of BEV takeup, this isn't the case. Additionally you are ignoring that a vehicle with a 25 year lifetime will have improving carbon efficency. You are also ignoring the single most important thing, pollution of case and coal plants are not produced right in cities where lots of people breath. > Russia ... India I'm not sure why you are expanding the discussion to these topics. > If not, all the aggressive switching by the OECD nations is for naught. This is a bad attitude. You can't just lose all hope and never do anything because India exists. Proving green technology on large scale and driving down cost will have an impact on India and other nations too. EV cars are constitutionally simpler then ICE vehicles and have the potential to be cheaper eventually. The emissions in city alone make switching worth it. The cars are also just straight better in terms of driving. > Toyota believes the developing world will still want ICEs for a long time, and the oil nations will still want to sell it. That's a straw man argument. I never said they should stop developing ICE or stop selling ICE in the developed world or even stop selling them in the West. I said Toyota should stop bullshitting, pretending the EV isn't already a gigantic market and that lots costumers want EVs. Toyota basically claims EV currently are trash and nobody wants them (that is true for their own EVs). Toyota clearly wanted to be innovative and focused on Hydrogen and it went nowhere (except for the government money going to their pocket). Toyota while claiming they are pro environment is pushing against all emissions regulation, wonder why that is. |