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Electric cars: what if we read Praise of the carburetor again?

2022-06-28T17:32:28.670Z


ANALYSIS - American scholar Matthew B. Crawford cites in his essay the importance of "man's freedom" and "an economy capable of fostering the virtue of independence".


It is a revolution without arms or barricades that is looming.

On June 8, the European Parliament adopted the text providing for the ban on the sale of thermal vehicles (petrol, diesel and hybrid) in 2035. On this date, only electric cars and vans will be marketed on the new market.

Objective: aim for carbon neutrality by 2050.

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MEPs have apparently not thought to look at their blind spots.

The thermal ban is a big leap into the void, and an industrial scuttling

”, worried Luc Chatel, former Minister of National Education now president of the Automotive Platform (PFA), at the microphone of BFMBusiness.

The marvelous world of electricity could well turn into a nightmare, including on the environmental level, if many questions do not find answers in 2035, tomorrow therefore.

Because the batteries are - for the time being - dependent on lithium, a rare metal whose extraction processes…

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