EU commission tweet in article:
The electric vehicles sector is crucial for the clean economy.
But markets are flooded with cheaper Chinese electric cars with price artificially kept low by huge state subsidies.
There’s no ‘but’ mf. That’s the solution. If you need EV cars to lower emissions you need to source affordable EV cars (you could go down the transit route but that doesn’t seem to be an option on the table).
Of course what you say here is absolutely correct, but i just want to add one caveat:
EVs don’t completely solve the emissions problem by themselves, you also need a green grid as well, and while China is working on achieving just that, the Europeans - in particular the Germans - are going full speed ahead in the opposite direction, dismantling nuclear power, replacing it with coal, and choosing LNG shipped across an entire ocean by heavily polluting tankers instead of pipeline gas from Russia which is transported much cleaner.
