Automakers, including Mercedes-Benz and BMW, have urged the EU to weaken the policy, amid slower-than-expected electric car sales. Sweden’s Volvo Cars and others say they have already heavily invested in the transition to electric, and any reversal on the ban would be a betrayal.
It was also a push for less pollution/environmental benefits.
But the fucking automakers in Europe were sleeping on their asses, and didn’t believe thar electric cars could work or that people would buy them.
Then came Tesla and bitchslapped the whole lot of them, proving that it does work, and by the time they started realising they needed to actually do something, you had the Chinese pumping out awesome cars at literally half the price that the EU can make them, and now they’re scared shitless.
I get that letting the EU car industry die is the beginning of the end for Europe, but the answer isn’t prolonging gas cars, it’s subsidising the industry in a smart way, so they can compete.