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EV-based road transportation is not viable
themadhippy:
--- Quote ---The price needs to fall drastically
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:-DD the minute installers heard theres a £5k grant available from the government prices shot up,just like solar instals and car charging points
PlainName:
--- Quote ---with the objective to phase out the sale of gas/oil boilers in their entirety by a future date. Suddenly you create a huge market for these devices and let capitalism work on the problem.
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The way capitalism would work on that is to raise the price, since there will be no choice - you have to buy it and can't use the (old) alternative. And the massive demand will just raise the price again - look at what happens whenever there is a scarcity of something. The time when it becomes cheap would be after the majority of those who would install them have done so, and the demand tails off.
Monkeh:
Almost like some sort of regulation is needed to control the markets rather than letting them abuse people.
tautech:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on February 22, 2023, 11:31:25 pm ---Almost like some sort of regulation is needed to control the markets rather than letting them abuse people.
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And regulators don't ?
eti:
This thread needs a flippin wake up call. Go and watch Guy Martin's Great British Power Trip” on Channel Four (UK) if you can - that’ll wake all the fantasists up from their EV utopian daydreams. Wake the #### up lol.
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