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White House threatens to veto anti-EV bill just passed by US House::The bill would prevent the EPA from enforcing tougher new pollution standards.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Explain how a vehicle that will only last 15 years before needing to be scrapped or has to have $10,000 thrown at it is better

Count all the maintenance you would be spending on an ICE over that same time period. Oil changes, spark plugs, coolant. Brakes also have less wear on EVs due to regen braking. It's too the point where they may last the life of the vehicle.

Ever look at the suggested maintenance schedule for an EV? Dealerships do, and it's part of why they're aggressively lobbying the government to keep ICEs on the road longer.

Explain how all the extra rubber and tire pollution from wearing out 15 to 20 percent faster due to all the extra weight, is going to save the environment.

Largely overblown, and also solvable in time. Based on how long humans can go without a food and piss break, plus some padding for 80% charge time and cold weather, there isn't much point to an EV with more than about 400 miles of range--and this is a very high end estimate. Past that, any further improvements in battery tech can be used to reduce weight. There are EVs on the market that are almost there already.

Explain how one country putting up 5% less cO2 is going to slow global warming.

I don't know where you're getting that. Transportation is 28% of US CO2 emissions.

EV will be great after batteries move beyond the li-pos and more of the US is on wind and solar.

So in your mind, we can't do more than one thing at a time? We can't have EVs until we have renewable power, and presumably an extensive charging network?

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So in your mind, we can’t do more than one thing at a time? We can’t have EVs until we have renewable power, and presumably an extensive charging network?

Its a classic argument a lot of Americans love to make about anything they hate "If it cant be absolutely, positively, flawlessly perfect immediately upon launch, then we should never use it even if its infinitely superior to what we already have"

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Progress? Investment over time? What are you talking about. /s

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