Comment by LunaSea

> Carmakers would have made giant losses because their production facilities become worthless overnight (and laid off swathes of people);

This is exactly what happened and is happening now. So 10 more years didn't prepare car maker better.

In fact the CEO of Stellantis was openly talking about how much of bad idea electric cars would be.

However, during those 10 years they managed to cheat on emissions measurements.

> it is quite likely that the whole industry would have picked the "wrong" technology to bet on, like fuel cells, synthetic fuel or even hydrogen combustion.

This also happened with so called bio-ethanol and Toyota's long standing and failed hydrogen bet.

> Compare how much pushback you get in the general population against costly pro-climate policy already

In Europe it's more a question of economics (like cost of electric cars for example) than a push back against pro-climate efforts themselves.