It is less than intelligent not to use fossil resources, for a countries like Canada second largest and the world's benefit till cleaner tech is widely available.
It was no to Germany and Japan, Canadian citizens pay premium prices for energy sources the country has.
Bridge tech is needed for those living now, the future is not here yet.
We are always forced to live today, tomorrow is never here yet.
Regardless innovation will not be stopped.
China’s EV push worked—the country is now the world’s largest market for EVs and is home to some of the world’s largest manufacturers of EVs and EV batteries.
Now, the government and some of China’s biggest energy companies are jumping into hydrogen energy. More than 10 state-owned energy companies including Sinopec and State Grid have plans to increase the use of hydrogen energy in the country.
Hydrogen fuel, which can be used in applications from industrial processes to transportation, could allow China to move away from fossil fuels.
technode.com
China is the largest producer of hydrogen today, at about 25 million tons (Mt), or roughly a quarter of the global total. Most of the volume is produced from
fossil fuels (60 percent from coal, and 25 percent from natural gas) as feedstocks
in refineries or chemical facilities. However, China is increasingly exploring cultivating the production and consumption of lower-emission hydrogen to help meet energy needs and spur industrial development while also addressing climate concerns. In particular, China’s 2060 carbon neutrality commitment made in 2020 is a major policy-oriented development that could aid the shift in hydrogen production away from fossil fuels to renewables, greater deployment of FCVs, and the use of hydrogen in harder-to-abate sectors.
China is increasingly exploring the production and use of low-emission hydrogen while establishing itself to be the world’s major fuel cell vehicle market. The development of a clean hydrogen economy in China would have major climate and energy security implications.
www.csis.org
One of the most ambitious in betting on electric cars in China, the world's largest auto market, is Volkswagen.
On the eve of the Guangzhou show, Volkswagen said its brands, including Volkswagen and Audi, plan to launch a total of more than 15 near-all-electric plug-in cars by 2018, many of which will be locally produced.
In China's congested and bustling cities, electric charging or hydrogen fuelling stations are a rare sight. Volkswagen says the infrastructure is not good enough, and believes plug-in hybrid technology is the solution.
Plug-in cars come equipped with a small gasoline engine that can power the car when it is drained of electricity.
By Samuel Shen and Norihiko Shirouzu GUANGZHOU/BEIJING (Reuters) - German auto giants Volkswagen AG, BMW and Daimler see China's future as being electric - encouraged by generous government subsidies - but that bet puts them at odds with some of their Asian rivals.
www.scientificamerican.com
The future is here in part, in the DR combustion engines will be part of life for a long time.
Yet all foreign innovations and advanced tech is trickling down to the DR.
Unfortunately the gob.do needs to generate tax revenues by high import duties.
This makes imported consumer goods prohibitively expensive and substantially more costly than in US-EU-CAN
China is a highly advanced country, Russia is thrown back by decades and will be Chinas pawn.
Both of them are not to be trusted as allies, yet we have to deal with China especially in commerce.
Military research by US and China results in major tech advances and more efficient killing.
Once invented the genie is out of the bottle.
Net zero carbon, imagine just the impact of Ukraine war on the worlds environment.
You bet, all of the environmental and global political issues have a major impact on the DR.
Economy, trade, tourism, infrastructure, gasoline imports and numerous other effects.
Even the Sahara sands reach the DR.
Ocean currents, warming, dying marine life, marine pollution, over fishing, high sustained temperatures, draught, water resources.
Yes they are DR related and affect the DR, it is not just an island to itself or Haiti.