In recent days, Vietnam’s public opinion has been discussing a lot about the Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh‘s policy of banning gasoline vehicles. Everyone can see that this is a policy that serves billionair Pham Nhat Vuong and his VINFAST. Even propaganda has been mobilized at full capacity to propagate to legitimize the decision.
Currently, the world’s road traffic system still relies on fossil fuels. Even China, a country that is electrifying its means of transport, is facing serious problems with this type of vehicle.
Electric vehicles in China are saturated and millions of electric vehicles are being produced and exposed to the sun and rain. The reason is that electric vehicles are not as convenient and reliable as gasoline vehicles. The time to refuel a gasoline vehicle only takes a few minutes, while the time to refuel a gasoline vehicle is up to many hours. In addition, the infrastructure for electric vehicles is not yet developed. And even electric vehicles are not as environmentally friendly as people think.
Because it cannot compete with gasoline cars from Japan, Korea, the US, and Europe, China has focused on electric cars as a shortcut. However, because of its haste, China is showing that it has gone the wrong way.
In the US and Europe, electric cars are now showing signs of saturation even though electric cars account for a very small proportion compared to gasoline cars. Famous gasoline car manufacturers in the world still produce electric cars at a moderate level and do not focus all their efforts on it, because they see that electric cars are not the means of the future.
If gasoline cars are banned, Vietnam’s traffic will be paralyzed again, because a gasoline car has a lifespan of up to decades, so will people just throw gasoline cars in the trash? In addition, if people buy electric cars, they cannot feel secure traveling far because not everywhere has charging stations. And more importantly, the infrastructure is not up to par, even if there are charging stations, they cannot meet the demand because each car needs to charge for many hours to have enough energy.
Pham Minh Chinh’s very thoughtless ban will be a foretold failure!
Huynh Tu-Thoibao.de
