Breaking News: The U.S. issued rules to ensure that most new cars sold in the country are electric or hybrids by 2032. It's the most significant climate regulation in American history.
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I will feel so much better being run over by an EV with a 10ft blind spot bc the driver was too busy playing Candy Crush on GM’s digital driver information center~
I think this post is in jest but that’s the narrative that was used to sell these giant cars to suburbanites- while its true that these cars do better when hitting vehicles smaller than them, they fare worse in rollovers, collisions with immobile objects (TREES!) and equal-sized impacts.
Part of the issue with the light truck exemption is that vehicle safety standards are more lax for them so manufacturers don’t have to do things like “make sure the engine doesn’t crush the passengers in a crash”.
I highly recommend Not Just Bikes’ video titled “These Stupid Fucking Trucks Are Literally Killing Us”. It should be shown in high school civics class. It’s a great explanation of why these trucks are so popular and why they are so dangerous.
I don't know the technical details but I'm confident in saying that, had we resolved to address the threat of climate change back then, we would have developed the tech necessary to be successful. car manufacturers didn't go that route on their own because the incentive wasn't there.
Isn't there like a concern that our electrical grid won't be able to sustain this many EVs? Why can't we focus on building better public transportation?
Batteries are plunging in cost, while improving rapidly in terms of efficiency and the range offered. EVs will reach parity with traditional ICE cars over the next several years.
Which are still unaffordable. The only good thing is this will cause ice cars to lower in price which will have an opposite effect than what the government wants
Hey, cool. Now let's do something about student loans, about private equity buying up single-family homes and sitting on them, about southern states intentionally destroying public education while they remove child labor laws...
I mean, the future will be cool if we make it there, I guess.
This is cool and all but is there anything about ensuring that cars stop increasingly being data collection platforms that we don't even own but "subscribe" to?
I'm unlikely to buy a car manufactured after 2000-2005 until this stops, if it ever does.
What has been done to replace cars with OTHER MODES (not personal EVs) urgently and on a large scale? Because that is necessary. What has been done to undo the massive fossil fuel expansion under this administration?
Seems like there has been a significant push for high speed rail corridors. I don't have citations handy unfortunately so open to being corrected on that.
Too Late.... On March 15, 2024, the daily average carbon dioxide (CO₂) at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, was 427.93 parts per million (ppm), as illustrated by the image below, adapted from NOAA.
The light truck loophole is still there though. You can’t get efficient (or safe!) traffic when you allow unnecessarily huge vehicles as daily commuters. Someone driving to and from work, the grocery store, the gym, etc. kill the short bed extended cab.
Does it include a minimum definition for hybrid? Because there are some hybrid cars starting to come out that just use the EV engine for extra boost during acceleration and exiting corners etc. (similar to how F1 cars use them). They aren’t more fuel efficient, just a lot faster.
So three presidential elections from now, if the law isn't repealed, at least 51% of cars, which will still be the main transit in America, will have to use some electricity sometimes?
And this is the most significant regulation on climate in US history? Why even pretend that's meaningful progress?
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Huge screens no matter what.
I mean, the future will be cool if we make it there, I guess.
I'm unlikely to buy a car manufactured after 2000-2005 until this stops, if it ever does.
That's what I came here to say.
We had a viable electric car in the 90s.
The auto industry failed to sell it and sold us SUVs instead.
We had better batteries and the auto industry bought and sat on the technology.
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/fossil-fuel-cash-democrats-climate ; https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/03/biden-promised-not-to-finance-fossil-fuels-so-why-is-the-us-backing-a-huge-gas-project/ ; https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/7/30/bidens-fossil-fuel-hypocrisy-is-betraying-the-planet ; https://priceofoil.org/2023/11/20/bidens-fossil-fuel-fail-pr/
he and his supporters, &every other Western regime, are climate change deniers
Nobody is serious. It's all lobbying and PR to make sure legacy auto and legacy energy keep their big slices of the pie for as long as possible.
And this is the most significant regulation on climate in US history? Why even pretend that's meaningful progress?