cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/46045941
“We need a reality check. Otherwise we are heading at full speed against a wall,” Mercedes chief executive Ola Kaellenius told the Handelsblatt business daily of the 2035 goal, adding that Europe’s car market could “collapse” if it goes ahead.
The “reality” is the problems with combustion engines and burning fossil fuels has been known, definitively, for 50 years or so, and these people, instead of planning for the future, ensured its destruction instead.