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Gasoline cars are now less than 50% of new cars sold globally. (oilprice.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [M] to c/futurology@futurology.today
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[–] 32 points 1 day ago (8 children)

glances at gasoline prices

I wonder why...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Not because of concerns of global CO2. People only care about their pocket books.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Yeah, that's generally how humans operate. Pretty universally.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

    That's how they're conditioned/forced to think under capitalism. Everything orbits around the accumulation and/or preservation of an abstract, arbitrary number rather than things that actually matter.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    No, that's just human nature. Humans operate within circles of closeness. Themselves, their immediate family, their extended family, their neighborhood, their town, their state, their country, other humans globally, then other issues like the abstract issue of a future climate situation.

    Generally, people only start to care about the further circles when the closer circles are fully satisfied, regardless of economic system. If something happens to affect a closer circle, then humans will virtually always focus on that circle before caring about a further circle.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    Misanthropic nonsense. People opposed their government waging the Iraq war, assisting the Palestinian genocide, the Vietnam war amongst whole hosts of other things with no appeal to their own wallet.

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    • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Hell, they're doing so well EVs were more than 25% of cars sold in the US last quarter - and even at that low percentage, total unit sales of EVs in the US was second only to China.

    Retail sales of the battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models qualifying for the incentive fell 26.6% and 13.9% year over year, respectively. Even with those declines, electrified vehicles, including BEVs, PHEVs and hybrids (HEVs), accounted for 26.9% of U.S. retail sales in the second quarter of 2026, according to Urban Science’s daily new-vehicle sales data through June 30, 2026.

    (source)

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    That is honestly much higher than I would have expected for the US. A rare piece of semi-good news from over there for once.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    My cynical but not wrong take as a US citizen who drives an old normal-sized car:

    The vehicles people choose to drive are so freaking huge that their electric versions will probably need 200kwh battery packs, making them even more expensive than EVs already are here.

    Though on the other hand, the people around me DO love spending ridiculous sums on their cars too.

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    • [–] 0 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    The actual problem is diesel, ship bunker fuel and jet kerosene.

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    • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    And here I am, looking for a new gasoline car because I can neither charge at home nor at work. There aren't even any fast chargers around as far as I know...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    You can use an app/site like PlugShare to see if there are any nearby chargers.

    https://www.plugshare.com/

    Keep in mind that you can plug an EV into a standard outlet and add between 40 snd 80 miles to the tank overnight. You don’t have to install a special charger.

    Hope this helps.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Believe me, I would love to be getting an EV. I live in an upstairs Appartement to, and have a parking spot that is about 5m away from the nearest structure, let alone outlet. I hope the charger situation improves within the next year, because that's about all the time I can give it. Thanks for the link btw, but it only confirmed that there are no viable chargers close by.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (1 child)

    Where do you live roughly? Can you contact your local government (the more local the better, your mayor for instance) and see if they're open to supporting infrastructure for charging? It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation, and many like you may switch if there's charging infrastructure.

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