Unfortunately I haven’t got the time but this leads into a bigger argument of mine that climate change doesn’t move the needle for most people, economics and features do
tldr if solar and wind turbines were more expensive than coal or gas, would we use them? EV’s are currently <2% of the Australian car market, only having recently burst up in sales thanks to higher fuel prices, if they were worse than regular cars, required more maintenance, had a shorter lifetime etc, would people buy them?
features/economics sells EV’s/batteries/solar/heat pumps, not climate change
Yeah, economics always wins… in the end. It was a happy day when solar went below coal in cost, but also sad that we had to get there before changes for the better really started compounding. That was the day the writing was on the wall for fossil fuels, everyone knew it, with the slow commodification of EVs i think we’re not far off seeing it again there.
Although maybe theres some psychological shifts needed for people in their sense of a cars place in society, before commodification can happen. We often treat these machines like our very own Victorian England style carriage. In that case we may never cross the cost threshold, the human ego might leave it as a luxury item.
Unfortunately I haven’t got the time but this leads into a bigger argument of mine that climate change doesn’t move the needle for most people, economics and features do
tldr if solar and wind turbines were more expensive than coal or gas, would we use them? EV’s are currently <2% of the Australian car market, only having recently burst up in sales thanks to higher fuel prices, if they were worse than regular cars, required more maintenance, had a shorter lifetime etc, would people buy them?
features/economics sells EV’s/batteries/solar/heat pumps, not climate change
Yeah, economics always wins… in the end. It was a happy day when solar went below coal in cost, but also sad that we had to get there before changes for the better really started compounding. That was the day the writing was on the wall for fossil fuels, everyone knew it, with the slow commodification of EVs i think we’re not far off seeing it again there.
Although maybe theres some psychological shifts needed for people in their sense of a cars place in society, before commodification can happen. We often treat these machines like our very own Victorian England style carriage. In that case we may never cross the cost threshold, the human ego might leave it as a luxury item.