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from the Detroit-on-another-deathwatch-and-still-doesn't-know-it dept.
The BBC and many other sources report:
The US car industry will be wrecked if President Trump relaxes emissions standards, California's governor says.
Jerry Brown said China would dominate car manufacture because it was heavily promoting the electric vehicles that would dominate the future.
He said huge investment was needed on electric vehicles, along with federal rules to encourage their purchase.
He said President Trump and US car-makers were "half asleep" and hadn't understood the scale of the challenge.
He told BBC Radio 4's Costing the Earth: "There will be a serious threat to the US auto industry.
Unlike many in Silicon Valley, Gov. Brown seems to want the USA car industry to survive this Chinese nationally supported onslaught.
While not specifically mentioned in the article, China is working on cars at all price points, not just early adopters that can afford a Tesla or other luxury car. The Chinese stuff may be junk now (think about the batteries in Chinese "hoverboards") but it won't be for long, they learn fast. Here's a little minivan that's headed to production, https://carnewschina.com/2017/09/28/new-photos-sinogold-gm3-electric-mpv-china/
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday November 14 2017, @07:24PM (1 child)
I dunno. If you could have farm machinery and pickups that were EVs that you could charge with wind and solar on your land, why wouldn't you? Driving into town for any reason is a pain in the butt.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday November 14 2017, @10:50PM
That is a very insightful point.
At some point, the value generated from solar panels for a square acre of land, might exceed the value of anything you could grow on that same land.
Alternately, windmills might be able to coexist on land along with crops.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.