As EU waters down 2035 EV goals, electric startups express concern | TechCrunch
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Instead of requiring 100% of new cars to be zero-emission vehicles by that date, the revised plan would allow 10% of new car sales to be hybrids or other vehicles as long as manufacturers purchase carbon offsets to compensate.
  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    22 days ago

    And they’re right. Being unserious about climate regulations because of “but muh old automaker profits” is already terrible from a moral/logical standpoint, but even financially, what about all the startups in EVs, renewables, energy storage, public transport, micromobility, etc? The Economy™ will be fine either way, but people won’t.

  • Kjell@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    22 days ago

    And at the same time we can see that the sales of EVs and PHEVs are increasing in Europe. It increased 6 percentage points in France and 4 percentage points in Sweden during November 2025. With that pace the fossil cars will not have any market left by 2035 anyway.