The Energy Minister explains that stocks of diesel and fuel oil, key to powering the electricity grid, have run out just two weeks after the US tightened energy restrictions
Phasing out decades of old cars is no small task, even the horse and buggy wasn’t phased out fully outside of Amish country until the late 60s early seventies in some areas. Even if they could get enough cars to fully replace that would still take quite a bit of time to ship over, that’s valuable cargo space that could be used for more pressing matters. Probably better and easier to just start spamming trolleys or something.
It appears that they are doing the first step, which is having electrification not relying on fossil fuels. As useful as it seems EVs may be for them, they are worthless if they can’t actually charge them. Hell they’d probably just end up using them as batteries to power homes and then they’d become dead weight until they have reliable source of energy.
Aren’t they allowed to buy Chinese cars?
Phasing out decades of old cars is no small task, even the horse and buggy wasn’t phased out fully outside of Amish country until the late 60s early seventies in some areas. Even if they could get enough cars to fully replace that would still take quite a bit of time to ship over, that’s valuable cargo space that could be used for more pressing matters. Probably better and easier to just start spamming trolleys or something.
Guess how fast old cars are phased out when there’s no gas? Lol.
It appears that they are doing the first step, which is having electrification not relying on fossil fuels. As useful as it seems EVs may be for them, they are worthless if they can’t actually charge them. Hell they’d probably just end up using them as batteries to power homes and then they’d become dead weight until they have reliable source of energy.
I don’t think they have enough electricity to run hospitals properly, let alone charge EVs.
And they probably need to fuel to generate the electricity.