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by wkat4242 1022 days ago
No. It doesn't mean that, it means that they can't be sold new anymore from 2035 onwards. So someone wanting to stay on gas can still buy a brand new 2034 one and drive it for decades. Though I expect they will be eschewed from city centers like older diesels are already.

Gas cars will still be around long after 2035 this is why this is not actually very ambitious in terms of climate mitigation. And now BMW wants to weaken it further.
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FirmwareBurner 1022 days ago
>So someone wanting to stay on gas can still buy a brand new 2034 one and drive it for decades.

Have you seen how difficult it still is to buy some new cars, as in the waiting times? If you wait for 2034 to buy a new car, you'll never get it. I expect that by 2030, the backlog of orders will e full already till the end of production in 2035.

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wkat4242 1022 days ago
No I haven't owned a car for years. But I think the demand will drop anyway.

Especially here in Europe we're not so invested in gas guzzlers (and cars in general really depending on the country). Cars tend to be very compact, so much that American movies often make fun of them.

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FirmwareBurner 1022 days ago
>But I think the demand will drop anyway.

That's your bubble talking, the reality goes in the other direction.

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wkat4242 1022 days ago
Not really, electric cars and hybrid are really taking off here.

Especially because more and more people have installed solar panels since the Ukraine war increased energy prices a lot. With that they can charge their cars for free.

In the Netherlands delivered electricity can right now be taken off the bill per kWh but in the future this will change, and during sun hours the delivered kWh won't be worth a lot. But using it for charging a car will still mean free fuel.

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