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Denmark Is Killing Tesla and Other Electric Cars (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous shares an article: The electric car has dropped out of favor in the country that pioneered renewable energy. Sales in Denmark of Electrically Chargeable Vehicles (ECV), which include plug-in hybrids, plunged 60.5 percent in the first quarter of the year, compared with the first three months of 2016, according to latest data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA). That contrasts with an increase of nearly 80 percent in neighboring Sweden and an average rise of 30 percent in the European Union. Denmark, a global leader in wind power whose own attempt at an electric car in the early 1980s famously flopped, used to be enthralled with them. Its bicycle-loving people bought 5,298 of them in 2015, more than double the amount sold that year in Italy, which has a population more than 10 times the size of Denmark's. The figures suggest clean-energy vehicles still aren't attractive enough to compete without some form of subsidy. However, it turns out that those phenomenal sales figures had as much to do with convenience as with environmental concerns: electric car dealers were for a long time spared the jaw-dropping import tax of 180 percent that Denmark applies on vehicles fueled by a traditional combustion engine.
It's all about price and market demand? If everyone who can afford an electric car already has one, of course the demand is going to drop.
What drug-induced hallucinations do people teach in business schools? Infinite growth is impossible, once the growth phase is over the target should be a nearly flat equilibrium.
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The headline is pretty misleading though. All denmark is doing is applying the same tax to Teslas as it used to apply to other cars. For a while, Teslas in denmark were very "cheap". You could get a fancy Tesla without the tax for roughly the same price as a car with 1/3 of the sticker price.
Given the tax is an insane 180%, it was never entirely about emissions. It was also about encouraging people not to own cars, cut down on driving (wear and tear == buying new cars), cut down on upgrading perfectly good cars, etc. It is heavy-handed social engineering. Prior to the Tesla, these cars were kind of an "oddball" thing. But with the Tesla, it kind of just let wealthy car buyers get a huge discount on something that is sold as a luxury vehicle in the rest of the world.
Bottles.
I'm an ultra hardcore liberal environmental American expatriate. So, listen to when I'm about to tell you. Electric vehicles suck massive portions of donkey cock. A gasoline powered engine has a tremendous range and can be refueled in just a few minutes. Electric vehicles? Not even close. Period. End of story. A humiliating defeat.
Yeah, yeah. It would be great if modern society revolted and restructured itself around electric vehicles, but it's too late for that. Human nature proves that it won't happen in our lifetime. So, to all you people with your lips firmly wrapped around Elon's disgusting cock, let go and realize that we're a long way off from the utopian transportation world you dream of.
Also, number plates are centrally-registered, they would know pretty fucking quickly if a plate was fake.
Both reasons you list simply mean you should be careful to use someone else's Tesla plate number when you print your fake plate...
P.S. This is obviously a joke as I would never abuse the sanctity of the Internet to promote anything even mildly illegal.
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