RE: PGM27 Feb 2023 13:13
My position is that electric cars actually make the problem worse.
They have a substantial carbon footprint (lithium and cobalt mining) and they only make sense when the electricity they use is made from renewables (which in most cases, it isn't).
Unless we are (hopefully) progressing with nuclear fusion becoming a reality, the best--and feasible--avenue is to increase the load on catalytic converters and industry filters.
There is no chance that we have a feasible infrastructure and and economy adapted to the new paradigm by the target date.
People are already less interested in EVs. Even for fuel-cell cars, it is important that the energy used for those is made from renewables as well (which nowadays it isn't).
So, will everyone stop driving trucks, trains, airplanes by 2030? No. But the taxation will increase, rest assured.