- cross-posted to:
- green@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- green@lemmy.ml
Lawmakers in the European Parliament plenary voted Wednesday to mandate that all new car and van sales should be zero emissions from 2035 as part of efforts to clean up road transport.
Lawmakers in the European Parliament plenary voted Wednesday to mandate that all new car and van sales should be zero emissions from 2035 as part of efforts to clean up road transport.
Cool. I guess they’ll be powered with electricity generated from gas (sourced from…?). There’s still no scalable battery recycling program. Where will the raw materials for the batteries and motors come from? Will citizens get subsidized high voltage lines to their homes or streetfront parking for fast charging? Can the grid handle so many EVs?
I don’t want to have to be so critical of something which is ostensibly good, but the EU has been digging deep into the greenwashing bag of tricks and none of their energy policy has been good for anyone except fossil fuel industry shareholders.
Fuck cars, that should be the starting point, you cannot achieve realistic measures if you do not ditch motor companies
Gotta start somewhere.
Europeans do not travel that far most of the time, unless on e.g. vacation. So fast charging is only really needed on e.g. major highways.
No, that why it needs overhauling in places. That is however a thing to worry about or national and local gov., not the EU.
Never let perfect be the enemy of good.
From the Lithium Triangle. Expect renewed imperialist efforts there.
Not to mention the brutal cobalt mines in Congo… And even if recycling happens at scale it’ll be poor folks in the global south who won’t have another choice but to sift through the toxic waste. It’s fine though, the wealthy white people of Europe don’t care that coloured people at home and abroad are suffering as long as their greenwashed sense of sustainability superiority is intact.