We're talking about 11 years in the future, and there's a ramp up included in the legislation. That's a long time, 11 years ago Tesla started selling the Model S, basically kicking off the current EV industry.

Definitely. A country who does this will be like Cuba is with all the old vehicles, and people doing everything they can to maintain them.

I think that really depends where you are. If you're in the US, sure. The US is far behind on infrastructure. If you're in Europe, it's much more viable. They have a lot more infrastructure (including much better public transportation) and EVs are actually viable as a replacement.

Policies like this are not to help the consumer but to push the manufacturers. A typical major redesign is every 5-6 years so this gives them about 2 generations for each model. It gives them some time to ramp up but no more excuses. Most importantly, if that’s all they’re allowed to sell then they need to figure out how to make them sellable.

The reason you know nothing will be done about this is that they didn't set a small goal for the next few years, it's another one of those multi-decade lofty goals towards which nothing will be done and at the end will be said it's unrealistic. Like when Germany said the same.

Technically, with HVO, diesel engines can run without emissions. So "EV only" is not necessarily what this means...

If they set a 10 year goal it may take 20 years to hit 80% of goals, if they set a 20 year goal it'll take 40 years to hit 50%, if they set a 50 year goal...

Nobody thinks this is a realistic goal, but the target gives a concrete number to set a mandate on which actually pragmatic policies, funding projects, and incentives can hang their hat on to keep the ball rolling.

With big infrastructure developments, nobody wants to buy into realistic goals, it's too costly, and there's never enough political will. You set overly ambitious goals so you can get people to buy in and then the project is too big to fail, so you end up paying what it actually costs, and you try to mitigate waste, unanticipated problems, corruption, and poor management along the way.

We'll just have to carry gas generators on our electric trucks to drive to work in the bush I guess.

*brake

And it should, it's fairly toxic. Fortunately EV's primarily and almost exclusively use regen.

Of the direct operational sources of pollution:

• co2 - none
• ozone and exhaust particulates - none
• brake dust - almost none
• oil and fuel leaks - none
• tire dust - 20% more

EVs may not be perfect but they’re a HUGE improvement.

In the new euro 7 emission standard it does

Sure they can. Look at Venus.