schizoidmanEV Searches Jump 20% In One Week Of Rising Gas Prices
And prices will jump just as much because of that, because why miss the opportunity to wrangle even more money out of a struggling population.
LemmyoutofherePeople are so short sighted.
They almost certainly mean to question others’ delay in acquiring an electric vehicle.
Hanrahanjust yesterday here in Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-20/…/106462828
Climate Council senior advisor Ben McLeod said the decision was difficult to reconcile with Australia’s emission reduction commitments.
“To see that they had approved it until 2081 — more than three decades after Australia should be reaching its net zero targets — is shocking,” he said.
Yeah and people search “how to move to Canada” at a high rate the day after every US election.
I’ll take stories like these more seriously after real people have actually spent real money. Search trends are not indicative of anything useful.
KushanThe weird thing is, now every electric will shoot up in price.
I thought demand was supposed to bring the price down in capitalism? Mmhm.
Only if the supply goes up, and all the companies laser focused on quarterly returns have been pumping the brakes on their EV rollouts…
Right
If you’re paying over $50k for an ICE car these days, you’re being wasteful and buying chaos.