The VW Group is all in on EVs. The big push is from niche sports car builders, which are an utterly insignificant amount of daily traffic and airlines.
Sports car builders are trying to keep a hobby alive, not part of the transportation industry.
Batteries are no more developed than affordable nuclear power at this point and are probably a bit behind. There is more of a supply chain for new nuclear power plants than for battery systems that are in the prototype stage at best.
I agree than the long term future is not nuclear but for this century, anything that can replace fossil fuels is welcome. In 20 years when the next new generation of nuclear plants is coming online if the large scale battery production for electrical generation is developed then we don’t need to build any more.
If that doesn’t happen, we’ll be glad new nuclear plants are coming online.
Cheap, large batteries for large scale energy storage will likely happen, and relatively soon. But depending on that is counting a chickens that have not hatched.
This is history, not news. Cool find for historians for sure, despite the horrendousness of the discovery.
How are large corporations going to reduce meat consumption? Or reduce the number of international flights people take for vacation? How will they make entirely unsustainable industries like fast food, fast fashion, and cruise lines go out of business? To say nothing about the rampant inhumane working conditions and cruelty in those industries.
Certainly a lot of the issues are dependent upon the world’s industrial infrastructure and that is not something that we necessarily have a handle on. But all the people building the new sustainable infrastructure are just regular people and individuals who decided to do something.
I wish that for even every 10 alarmist articles about climate change published there was one about the various steps and programs being worked on to address it.
But no. Just more selling of fear and sensationalism.
There is very little information regarding that in mainstream news and it is a serious disservice. People need to understand these issues if we are going to contribute to them or vote for them intelligently.
EVs aren’t remotely speculative any longer. Fuel efficiency targets are locked in and anyone who wants to sell cars in 10 years is spending billions to get the infrastructure and development in place to make EVs.
Efuels are what are speculative and it is highly doubtful they will be anything but expensive. Which is fine for luxuries like sports cars. And even unnecessary international flights are a luxury. We just feel entitled to them.