THIS IS EXACTLY THE POINT!!! A carbon tax evenly and fairly penalizes emissions. If EVs are hurt by this, they should be. We need market solutions like a carbon tax. Supporting EVs because they are green in theory is stupid. Supporting ANYTHING because it is green in theory is stupid. Tax that problem, and then see what ends up making sense.
Yep let's fairly penalise emissions. But, but, but, we can't determine just how many EV's are actually charging totally on non emitting electricity. So let's just blanket charge any electric supply with the average for the country based on CO2 emissions.
Excellent. What an incentive for new EV buyers. Which are, let us not forget, significantly more expensive than the equivalent FF vehicle.
Now let's go to FCA and tell them that if they put that $1.8bn into producing a gasoline burning engine with 50% more efficiency than the current engines today, they can equal current EV's on coal power. The real beauty of that situation is that it does not have to go through some profit and loss analysis or whether their competitors will be able to use it too, we're talking direct taxation here of emitting vehicles which FCA are mitigating by putting near $2bn out there. Meaning that they could invest half a billion in a more efficient ICE and totally bypass the penalties. Especially as Germany is struggling so hard to get off Coal that their EV penalties for CO2 would be quite high.
Be careful what you wish for. Today the FF vehicles and general taxpayers are subsidising EV "fuel" because when we get to our clean grid we want to be off FF entirely and this is the best way to do it.
But NO, you want to TAX the EV's and give FF manufacturers some true incentive to innovate and beat the EV's on the current FF powered Grid.
Then when our Grids are finally free of FF, we'll have to spend the next 4 decades getting rid of the FF vehicles.
Way to go.
You know what the CIA call suicide bombers? "Not so smart Bombs".
This idea, to me, falls into the "Not so smart" category.
But my IQ is only 70, apparently, so, please do; go for it.
Just remember that the standard gasoline engine is around 20%, on average, thermally efficient. Acres of room for improvement. CCGT used for power gen is in the 90% bracket. Apparently it doesn't take an IQ over 70 to know that....