The European Commission will launch an anti-subsidy investigation against Chinese automakers, which may result in higher import duties on electric vehicles.
  • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    9 months ago

    China subsidizes EV production, and EU companies struggle to keep up. Now EU politics wants to make Chinese EVs more expensive?

    In face of climate change, I can think of two more favorable solutions:

    1. Subsidize your own EV production. No one should be willing to buy an ICE anymore, anyways.
    2. Invest in public transit, bike infrastructure, cargo bikes. No one (except rural folks) should be dependent on owning a car, anyways.
    • Anekdoteles@feddit.deEnglish
      102·
      9 months ago

      Invest in public transit, bike infrastructure, cargo bikes. No one (except rural folks) should be dependent on owning a car, anyways.

      This is very nice, but even better would be to make rents in cities dirt cheap again. First step would be to not sell any land but only lease it. And stop subsidizing the fucking countryside that grabs the wealth of society, ruins its political landscape and destroys the planet for it in return.