“GM is currently assessing potential future investment,” GM spokesperson George Svigos said in a statement, adding: “No final decision has been made. GM is committed to an all-EV future globally. On that pathway, we continue to study consumer preferences and powertrain options, to ensure we best respond to customer demand and comply with an uncertain, complex and increasingly stringent regulatory landscape for 2027 and beyond.”
Imagine how much better everything would be if governments weren’t cowards and mandated hybrid systems in everything back in the early 2000s after they were proven to be viable.
More peppy economy cars, maybe 1/3rd less fuel consumption globally, less smog and shit in our cities. And unlike with EVs, where I can see how there’s large groups of people with concerns or issues, realistically how many people would stake out there and say “yes, I would like a less fuel efficient car”
Sure, cars would be a bit larger and more expensive; but realistically they’ve gotten larger and more expensive anyway
So now governments should mandate what product a car company makes? What else should a government mandate? Experimental mRNA injections?
A lot! This is why CAFE regulations are a thing. The general pattern is “fuel cheap, car expensive”, so efforts to save on fuel with expensive car components is met with resistance from consumers.
Imagine how much better and less expensive vehicles would be if the government didn’t interfere at all and allowed the natural organic pace of technological change to handle the transition? Imagine giving consumers the power to choose what they want to spend their money on instead of a handful of wealthy people in seats of power taking that from them.
In that case you would probably have less gas cars and maybe more public transit. Or are you forgetting gasoline is heavily subsidized by the government? Or how domestic automakers lobbying led to the death of the street car in the early 1900s? Nearly every piece of technology we have developed has some sort of regulation or interference with it, whether you like the tech or not
Oof, again with this nonsense. Fossil fuel industry is heavily net taxed, and gasoline would be MUCH cheaper if the government completely abandoned interference in the energy sector. And if you actually believed this, then you would advocate for smaller government staying hands-off the energy sector since you’re claiming corruption in propping up what you think is an obsolete technology.
With the exception of the space race (which was not remotely useful to the average man considering the massive expenditure compared to the direct return on investment), this is completely divorced from reality. We transitioned from oars to the age of sail because it was more efficient and we traded those sails for steam when it became more efficient and those steam engines turned to oil when the economics again made sense.
When fossil fuels become a more scarce resource or underperform in some way compared to an alternative, that alternative will be adopted organically just as it has time and time again throughout history.
I imagined it and it came out with LA smog
And what city in the world to this day has the worst smog? LA… almost as if the geography and climate has something to do with it, and it was a stupid place to live with no water and people should just move.
Because it’s just that simple!
The United States has a plethora of abandoned ghost towns, but LA doesn’t even have to go that far just cut its population to 7 million or so and most of the problems would disappear. *thanos snap* Just don’t move to TX please, we dun full up!
The smog is a lot better now get over yourself.
The government didn’t allow it to happen when the corrupt courts favored Bush over Gore
And yet people want to cry about how 2020 was stolen from them.
You’re joking right