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Scraopage scheme for encouraging new ev purchases
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Might be carbon negative, although that's also not always the case depending on the mileage the banger does, but it's defenitely cancer negative. Especially diesel. As the gov, you want that shite out of the road away from the people. It makes you money (the gov) and saves health & lives by removing them off the road. Petrol is OK, you might have a point with that, although VOCs and NOxes from petrol aren't healthy either.
France and Romania are the 2 EU countries that do scrappage and that definitely boosts their EV sales.
For example, Romania has a 12% EV market share which is very good for a country with much lower purchasing power.
France scrappage policy is below. The way it's written it's removing the most toxic stuff off the road.
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The EU is us, the member states. Not they/them.
And don't invoke the evil Germans. The German car industry is quite successful in electrification, especially BMW and Merc (20%+ sales), VW is struggling but still not anti-EV.
The issue is rather with Spanish, Italian, Czech, Slovak and to some extent French governments and Stellantis + the Japanese are totally lobbying for that too. Those are the ones pushing against EVs, against the Chinese competition and want tariffs on China, not the German carmakers. German carmakers manufacture in China and are not very keen on tariffs.
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