Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 days ago

Last December, the European Commission scrapped a 2035 ban on selling new petrol or diesel cars. Instead, under pressure from Germany and Italy, it let manufacturers keep making cars with up to 10% of their current exhaust emissions past that date – in effect, a way to keep selling combustion engines.

I thought the European Commission just presented the law, but it has to pass through parliament and council to go into effect, which to the best of my knowledge has not happened. So the 2035 ban should still be law.