Everybody especially the construction industry knew the ban was coming. Obviously they retrained their workers to be able to install heat pumps and the like. Clearly experience is missing, but they are really pissed that they just invested a lot into the transition and the current government then takes away their market.

Lobbying from fossil fuels. Hence the German government wanting to abolish it. The really fucked up part is that Germany has basically no gas or oil, but a relativly strong heat pump production industry. So this is just stupid.

It is not the target, but a legal minimum for newly sold heating systems. Since running a dual system with gas and oil and some sort of heat pump is mostly stupid, this is effectivly a ban on the sale of new fossil fuel boilers.

I am not Canadian, but are Suncor and CNRL really not lobbying hard right now? I would have though they are the large players in Canadian oil sand and would be the force behind those pushes.

Does that campaign have access to the worlds most powerful military and secret service? Cause the fossil fuel campaing has now.

I strongly disagree with that. Renewables are already cheaper then fossil fuels. Many other technologies like heat pumps and EVs are also at a similar level. The main issue is that the fossil fuel industry is lobbying hard to slow down the transition. Obviously having the worlds largest economy as a secure market and that country openly lobbying for the fossil fuel industry hurts other countries transition. We can see that in Latin America and Europe already. A lot of US money and pressure on those governments to keep using fossil fuels. It is really really bad and Cuba is just way too small to make a difference in that.

And that is going to be the real issue. No good new cars, car sales crash in Europe and China, while the US is trying to keep out BEVs. That is why Musk supported Harris in the last election or something like that.

Stupid general question, but why are there so many articles comparing BYD and Tesla, but ignore every other EV company. It is fine in a headline, but at least in the article itself, there should be some sort of list of the sales of other brands or companies. It is not just happening in Australia, but also in a lot of other countries and often ignores some big players.

The US makes up half of the G7 population. Given Trump, the G7 are always going to fall behind China. Add to that a bunch of the countries having relativly clean grids and you probably not going to see massive deployments.

Here is the actual link to the article: https://sustainabilitymag.com/news/vw-beats-tesla-are-historic-firms-winning-the-ev-race

The one linked in the post goes to another one.

For some reason US manufacturers can’t make a $35k EV.

But other car manufacturers can and do so. They can be bought outside the US and are a huge reason why Tesla is struggling so badly. It is not just China as well, but also Hyundai and European companies. The only reason Tesla is still doing well, is that Trumps tariffs protect Tesla from those non US competitors.

EU carbon certificates are at 87€/t right now. That is higher then it was in November. The reason they are profitable are high gas prices in Europe and fairly low wind electricity production right now. All of that is likely to turn worse for coal. As in certificate amounts are lowered each year, gas prices are high due to sanctions on Russia and demand for gas is probably going to fall(besides replacing coal) and renewables are built out and weather changes.

In other words this is temporary.

Heavy trucks are reallly growing in sales in the EU recently. We are still talking single digit percentage, but going up quickly. The good news is that trucking companies only care about money. So a switch can happen quickly. They also consume a lot of oil, so this can make a huge difference.

Is California not just made up of single family housing and very sunny everywhere? Seems like the ideal place to charge cars with solar at home.

Here you go: https://carbonmajors.org/Entities

I always thought that Europe would be all over the EVs and would quickly build the infrastructure, help replace any other engines, and invest into battery research.

The number of articles talking about BYD destroying the European market are way too high. The truth is that the Volkswagen group is leading BEV sales in Europe and especially Germany. The only non German brand in the top five brands is Skoda and they are owned by the Volkswagen Group. Q4 2025 Tesla was at 2.8% market share and BYD at 2.5% of BEV sales.

Germany is also the second largest producers of BEVs globally passing the US this year. There are also some massive investments into batteries going on. Other European countries are doing similar things.

So this money is going to end up mostly with German car makers anyway.

2km are 1.2miles

It depends. France is on a similar level to China, but much cleaner, Sweden and Norway are well above China. The other use much less. It is complex for sure. Especially when you consider efficiency as well.

A lot of countries are already quite far along. Norway, DRC, Uruguay, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Albania and a bunch of others are doing much better then China or the US. If you include nuclear also France and Sweden go pretty far. Also Brazil is at nearly 90%.

The actual same metric is here. It is not surprising that large countries produce the most.