Switzerland is planning to ban the use of electric vehicles (EVs) this winter due to the ongoing energy crisis, according to reports.
Due to its dependence on imports, Swiss authorities are worried about a crippling energy crisis this winter. About 60% of Switzerland’s energy comes from hydroelectric power.
Thegatewaypundit.com reports: Another 30% is generated from nuclear power plants, which the government has already decided to phase out. Traditional fossil fuels and wind farms make up the remainder of Switzerland’s energy sources, according to Euro Weekly News.
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Fox News reported:
The Telegraph reported on Saturday that Swiss officials have drafted emergency proposals that restrict power usage if things get bad this winter.
For example, shops may need to reduce their hours, streaming services may need to be limited and buildings may only be heated to 20 degrees Celsius, or 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
Other bans, according to the Telegraph, may include concerts, theater performances and sporting events, all to prevent a blackout.
The country’s emergency plan is split into two tiers: crisis and emergency. It also has three levels of restrictions in the first tier and two levels of restriction in the third tier.
Swiss officials will activate each tier and level based on supply level. At the very minimum, buildings will only be able to be heated to 20 degrees Celsius. As things intensify, electric vehicles will be limited to essential trips, and in the worst-case scenario, concerts and sporting events will cease.
Additional measures like escalators and holiday lights getting turned off, leaf blowers getting silenced, and cryptocurrency mining getting banned are also included in the plan.
It can be recalled that similar events happened in California, where residents were urged to avoid charging their electric vehicles during peak hours to avoid power outages.
“Californians are strongly urged to lower electricity use by setting thermostats to 78 or higher, health permitting, avoid using major appliances, and turning off all unnecessary lights,” officials announced. “Tomorrow’s Flex Alert is the fourth consecutive call for conservation, as much of the state remains gripped in an extensive heat wave.”
The announcement comes after days of passing a law banning new sales of gasoline-powered cars by 2035.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
isnt it IRONIC you must buy evs but now its you cant drive your evs but the planet is safe at least lol id iots
This is on the horizon for the United States too where people will have to walk because they’ll be too poor to drive.
Subways. Trains. Buses bikes scooters.
All running on Carbon Energy?
Diversity is suppose/d to be a strength, but energy diversity is supposeldy bad.
they can’t make up their minds.
The fact is we should not be putting all our eggs in one basket. A strong resilient economy would use coal where coal is abundant, solar like in AZ, hydro where you have a dam, Nat gas where you have nat gas. peppered with Nuclear plants.
That is how you construct a strong economy, let the market choose what type of fuel to be used. Not some idiot banker that is going to teach us his retarded morals
Thank God your not running even the typing pool.
You’re.
If they were actually really going to reduce population they wouldn’t need to doing any of this crap.
They lie They just can’t tell the truth. They are born deceivers It’s their traits, their nature.
Here were opening hydrogen gas stations and will be phasing out diesel. Electric doesn’t work in this country because of the vast sizes of each states The cities can go electric but the country will be hydrogen.
Electric aren’t much use when your needing to travel hundreds of miles to go to the shops. And you don’t have all day to be waiting to recharge. The swizz are smart. Electric sucks in the water and they have snow melting everywhere.
While it’s clearly a slippery slope, a headline about “banning electric vehicles” for a story about restricting EVs for essential trips, is why I rarely link people to this site, and instead find the same story on a different site. The Expose from the UK is the same, great stories, real stories, but wrapped in a way that I cannot share.