California's electric car screw up

 Stephen Green:

It’s been a while in coming, but California will officially mandate electric cars no later than 2035.

No new gas or diesel-powered vehicles will be sold or licensed there barely more than 12 years from now. Last year, electric vehicle sales represented less than 10% of the approximately 1.8 million new cars sold in the Brownout State.

Only 607,600 electric vehicles were produced in the U.S. last year. Assuming nothing radical changes, between now and 2035, California buyers alone will require three times as many EVs as were produced in 2021.

Or people will hang on to their gas-powered cars much longer, defeating the purpose of the mandate. I know I would.

The CEOs of Tesla and Toyota — Elon Musk and Akio Toyoda — agreed in 2020 that full electrification won’t work. “The more EVs we build, the worse carbon dioxide gets,” Toyoda warned. “When politicians are out there saying, ‘Let’s get rid of all cars using gasoline,’ do they understand this?”

Sure, they just don’t care.

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Toyoda’s comments followed Musk’s math that electricity production would have to “double” to eliminate gas and Diesel engines — and that would be on top of electricity demand that’s already accelerating:

In an interview with Berlin-based publisher Axel Springer, hosted by Germany’s Bild am Sonntag, Musk said sourcing the energy necessary to power EVs would become the biggest obstacle over the next two decades. It’s actually something experts have been considering for a while and Germany, in particular, has had to confront as its own massive push toward sustainable energy turned out to be, well, largely unsustainable.

Energy prices in Europe today are at record highs.

Curiously, California made no announcements today regarding increased electricity production.

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They act like this has something to do with "climate change" which has to be one of the most overrated phenomena in history.  Ao Gore predicted that the poles would be ice-free by about 2013, i.e. that would have happened nine years ago.  However, the polar ice caps are actually expanding.  So liber states are imposing unneeded requirements that are unsupported by events.

See, also:

California to ban sales of all new gas-powered cars beginning in 2035

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