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Originally Posted by Tvisforme
It is odd how the naysayers all seem to forget how much ICE vehicles have evolved and improved, not just since their introduction, but even in the last decade - as if EVs would somehow be exempt from this same process of refinement.
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You don't even have to look at ICEVs. Just look at EVs. We're 12 years away from 2035. The best selling EV 12 years ago was the Nissan Leaf. The popular eco-car was the Prius. Given the investments now pouring into R&D and manufacturing, just imagine where we'll be in 2035.
But of course, people just want to complain. Driven by motivations that are anything but concern about the tech. Usually:
1) Hatred of the Liberals. So all Liberal policy is automatically bad. No coherent and informed criticism needed.
2) Climate denialism. This ranges from the borderline flat earther type of "More CO2 is good for plants!" to the soft denial type, "It's real and we should do exactly nothing about it."
Meanwhile, politics aside, it's a pretty moderate policy given the inclusion of plug-ins and given that the country is already on track to meet it. It's also a target shared with states making close to half the auto market in the US.
Honestly, I despair with discussions like this. It's also the same lot who think we used to be able to do big things as a country before. How do they think we did those things?