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Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decadelong Effort (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Well yeah. I don't think EVs are for the mass consumer yet. They remain quite expensive and remain unreliable.

Hybrids, like Toyota Corolla Hybrid, get 50+ mpg and are only $24k. If you can't afford PHEV or EV, then drop down to the next tier. Hybrids exist for a reason and will have significant emissions saving / carbon emissions reduction compared to a normal car, by simply burning a fraction of the gasoline of a normal car.

I also don't believe that we can buy or consumer our way out of this problem. Your actual biggest way to minimize your emissions is to find a bus.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

yep, there's just no way to build cars for everyone without completely destroying the planet...
we've already mostly destroyed it...