Whilst I do agree that the private sector maybe exercising some form of lobbying, I'm sure many manufacturers would not have invested so heavily into EV's development so early on (whilst other technologies such as cheap batteries were not developed adequately) had the EV solution to mass transport not been so widely backed by governments across the world, being panicked into what was perceived as a green solution. So I do believe they have some right to question government direction and the pace of change when they are facing massive additional investment requirements. We have yet to see where bio fuels and green hydrogen takes us over the coming decade or so and its impact on the EV debate going forward.
Already the US is investing and building in air scrubbers to collect the green house gasses and lock them away.......maybe we should focus more on cleaning the air with air scrubbers rather than trying to reinvent the wheel and throwing away proven technology and current infrastructure that works.
One does wonder from time to time how the world geopolitics are being re-engineered and to whose advantage as the oil rich economies become increasingly less critical to our general and economic well being as the world reliance on oil disappears and with it their power base. Who will be the eventual winner and are we creating a world that will see an ascendance of Asian power in the coming decades as the western world suffers from green house cost indigestion undermining their economic cost base and competitive effectiveness. Are we already experiencing it with eg cheaper Chinese EV's.
Last edited by JohnHarris; 21/09/23 01:31 PM.
