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Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’ (www.yahoo.com)

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Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’::"I don't think I would have believed it."

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[-] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

In 1910, in the United States, there were about 5 automobiles per 1,000 people. His analogy is stupid.

Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 33, ORNL-6990, Oak Ridge, TN, July 2014, Tables 3.5 and 3.6.

[-] PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

I think his analogy is accidentally spot on. ICE cars are going to be around for a while

[-] nexusband@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

For a very long while, which makes it so important we switch away from fossils fuels to co2 neutral, synthetic fuels as fast as possible. And in Europe, nobody wants EVs anyway, sales dropped like batshit crazy and everyone is getting ICE cars...

[-] minorcoma@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Synthetic fuels would be great for all the existing stuff, but not sure where you're getting EV sales are down in Europe.

New plug-in car registrations:

BEVs: *212,000 (up 57% year-over-year) and 17% share
PHEVs: *100,000 (up 17% year-over-year) and 8% share
Total: 311,897 (up 42% year-over-year) and 25% share

From https://insideevs.com/news/680428/europe-plugin-car-sales-june2023/

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