8/24/2023 0 Comments Allysia finleyAccording to the Wall Street Journal in Germany, the cost of fuelling a BEV has risen to close or even higher than an ICE vehicle on public charging networks. If sales are going to rise about 7 times in Western Europe by 2030, that’s a formidable barrier to cost cutters as demand for expensive and rare content explodes. That has now been reversed because of the cost of exotic raw materials like lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper, magnesium and graphite. The price of batteries, which VW now say account for around 40% of the BEV price, must fall continuously. The path to 100% BEVs in Europe’s new car market depends on the underlying economics. A couple of stories in the Wall Street Journal over the holidays, and an earlier report from Toyota, point to some gathering obstacles that might cause an EU re-think. So by 2035 in Europe, no new ICE power in any form will be allowed unless the EU relents. This is because a total switch to BEVs would harm the poor in remote, rural areas, the CARB says. The California Air Resources Board (CARB), known for its radical approach to CO2 regulation, has decreed some PHEVs will be allowed after its proposed ban on new ICE car sales in 2035. Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs-bigger battery than regular hybrid allows up to 50 miles battery-electric only range) will be banned too, perhaps demonstrating not only EU legislators are unaware of unintended consequences but also haven’t heard the aphorism “perfection can be the enemy of the good”. But using the state’s systemic problems to make a point about inept legislators - and Democratic ones only, please - doesn’t advance the conversation already underway in California about meaningfully addressing our deep problems.Īnd a joke about Birkenstocks in the biography? Only the most curmudgeonly of California’s conservatives would laugh at that one.Unless circumstances force the EU to dilute its rules, this type of hybrid (battery working with ICE engine, little electric-only range, like the original Toyota Prius) will be banned by 2035. In a year conservatives started out ahead, Republicans offered two candidates who had little more going for them than personal wealth.įinley touches on several worthy points, including California’s crushing unfunded pension liability and the state’s byzantine system of regulatory boards and commissions. Whitman’s prodigious spending stood in stark contrast to Brown’s more humble operation, and Fiorina couldn’t shake her reputation as a failed Silicon Valley CEO who fired thousands of employees. But you gave us Whitman and Carly Fiorina, each of whom ran against more seasoned (and arguably more electable) Republican opponents in their respective primaries. We have no problem electing Republicans to high posts, even privately wealthy ones with almost no government experience. Which brings me to my larger point, one that I’ll relate as a note to Finley, just as she does with us Californians: It isn’t us it’s you. You could say Oropeza’s reelection says less about the Democrats who elected her and more about the Republican she was up against. Oropeza represented an overwhelmingly Democratic district, one in which, like almost all in California, the challenging party almost never has a chance. Jenny Oropeza, who passed away two weeks before the election, is shamelessly glib. And her dead legislator point about state Sen. But Californians also passed Proposition 20, the redistricting measure that promises to make incumbent victories rarer in the future. Regarding Finley’s point about incumbent state legislators, she’s right as far as she goes. The point has been brought up enough times - mainly in response to Meg Whitman’s and other conservatives’ efforts to misrepresent Brown’s record - that you’d figure his critics would have quit typecasting him as the liberal pariah who brought down the California empire.įinley’s Newsom dig is even more off-base, considering his largely ceremonial role as lieutenant governor involves infinitely less than ‘helping enforce wacky laws.’ But to trump up this fact as indicative of California’s collective insanity ignores Brown’s more mixed record as governor, including his enthusiastic implementation of Proposition 13, which won him the support of anti-tax crusader Howard Jarvis. Yes, he signed legislation giving public employees the right to unionize. On the plus side, he has nice hair and loves you just the way you are. Gov-elect Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco mayor who flouted state law by allowing same-sex marriage. Helping enforce your wacky laws will be Lt. This is the man who acted as a gateway drug to your spending addiction three decades ago when he gave public-sector employees collective bargaining rights. Jerry Brown will be your new (old) governor.
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