Electric Vehicle Tipping Point in 2022: An end to EV subsidies?
I heard someone ask, “if EV (Electric Vehicle) sales continue to increase exponentially at the same rate, how long before all sales are EVs”? While
I heard someone ask, “if EV (Electric Vehicle) sales continue to increase exponentially at the same rate, how long before all sales are EVs”? While
This is the lead webpaper for all content related to cars and trucks and their future, and while most content is on the transition to EVs and hybrids, but also the future of car ownership.
Many, even including Elon Musk, claim that in the future, people won't need to own a car. I suggest that sentiment misses that cars are mobile living spaces, which is why car ownership is more important than just having a method of transport. In fact, a future where only the wealthy can own cars is heading towards the direction of reducing personal living space and "caged humans" where it could also be suggested "people won't need their own home".
This is a site that supports a transition to EVs, without embracing the agenda that EVs are only ever smaller city cars or better still just electric bicycles, but because EVs should allow the vehicles we want to own to be sustainable. That is provided we don't also succumb to living in cities that seek ever denser population densities.
The defining difference between humans and other species is that the "accessories" we make evolve independently of our genes. The difference between humans of 50,000 years ago and the 21st century can be seen by anyone while birds' nests, beavers' dams and bees' hives only evolve when the species evolves.
In the spirit of Batman and Ironman, our 'accessories' or 'tools' allow to outcompete other species confined by biological evolution and provide humans with enhanced abilities that could even be seen by past generations as superpowers. Genetically we may be similar to humans of over 50,000 years ago, but our accessories make us very different in ways that impact us from our population to tolerance of others.