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How we get off fossil fuels looks very roughly like this:

  • Generate electricity without burning stuff (wind, solar, geothermal, storage, and maybe nuclear if it's cheap enough)
  • Electrify everything we can (electric vehicles, elecrified mass transit, ebikes, heat pumps for home and district heat, nitrate fertilizer manufacturing, etc)
  • Stop doing the things we can't (a few industrial processes)
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[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Not shortsighted. Carbrained and corrupt. Also, the time to invest in European EV production has passed. China has got that market cornered now. German carmakers squandered any advantage they might have initially held on building bulky, expensive cars that the average person can't even afford.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 points 4 days ago

China has got that market cornered now. German carmakers squandered any advantage they might have initially held

Yes, because they were good at building ICE cars and wanted to squeeze as much profit out of it as possible instead of investing in transition into EV. They still look at the next quarter instead of the next decade. So yeah, shortsighted.

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