No, no.

The answer is that you are an idiot who doesn’t understand English. BEVs are not zero emissions. Notice the period.

It’s okay to not have an answer to something you’ve said. 

You really are a dumbass. By dumbass I mean idiot. My apologies to idiots every where for comparing you kind people to this asshole.

You dumb fuck, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID.

Remember that cars were the answer to the serious health crisis of horse shit in cities. Next we’ll be wringing our pearls and gnashing our teeth over something that electric cars cause.

I mean they essentially did buy a farm. A tree farm.

I just really hope that direct sales become an option in the near future. But it will/would be a huge barrier to cross for traditional manufacturers to reach that given they’d have to probably buy out the dealerships to support that model and good luck slowly doing that without a strike of some kind.

Let’s not discount that fact that bigger wheels are legitimately not great, especially on the pothole riddled roads on Michigan.

The vehicles themselves are zero-emissions.

3rd Gear.

LOL

I really really hate to say it. But it sounds like if you’re doing that much driving, a Prius V might be your best bet.

While I know that it’s a bit more nuanced, especially if you have an agenda of curbing the purchasing behavior of the public, I definitely agree having dueling subsidies is just not a great way of running this show. 

The only types of policies that change behaviors without upsetting the public are ones that incentivise those behaviors, not the ones that punish the bad behaviors. I mean anyone who’s ever trained a dog knows this.

They’re all just following the data and trends in sales. Everything else is just speculation. Reactionary? Probably. But in their eyes, it’s probably better to sit there, make the money while times are good, rather than pulling the cords early and missing out on those earnings.

China had a similar situation with solar technology. They had a lot of subsidies before cutting them. What resulted was a true “survival of the fittest” situation, where these companies had to rapidly come up with ways to cut costs. And what happened is that some of the companies actually innovated in that high…

While subsidies can certainly jump start a market and get the development going, when times are bad, times are bad. People won’t risk that big new purchase.

Agreed. Although not completely analogous, for a similar example, I don’t think you have to look further than Apple who is completely content not owning every market or the majority of any one market. They focus on profit margins and it shows as they are one of the most valuable companies in the world.

GM is actually pulling out of Australia entirely according to other articles. Building RHD variants for a small region apparently isn’t worth it financially.