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Green steel can cut climate impact of car production for just €57 a vehicle | The auto industry can become a lead market for low-carbon steel production in Europe w/legal requirements (www.transportenvironment.org)
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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What I'm reading is they can save 57 euros per car by not doing it, which means saving the shareholders millions.

Why are we still expecting for-profit multinationals to do what's right just for the sake of it? Either we force them to do it through regulation, or nothing will get done.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Either that or they just produce 120k dollar cars with it. Or put an extra 10k on a normal car.