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‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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Hydrogen could/can be done greenly but there's a reason the oil and gas companies push it as the green option of choice when they're not trying to stop any transition at all: hydrogen keeps them relevant longer - most of it is obtained and transported through their systems. They'd love if we spun our wheels investing in a precarious energy transition into a new tech on the promise that the generation of hydrogen will eventually become green - they can draw that out for years.
Electrific cars are still basically the same thing for auto companies - keeping the car relevant, but there's value in the comparative mechanical simplicity and the fact that the electric transition has already made significant progress and is hurting oil and gas sales now.
Full agree that public transit would be a significant improvement, especially improvements in coverage area