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The writing is on the wall- the internal combustion engine is headed for a museum. China, France and the UK have already decided to phase them out, California will surely follow. This will completely scramble the auto industry and eventually turn the oil industry into a Shell of itself (get it?).
So it is simply unavoidable that MX will go electric- unless recreational usage of IC engines continues after they are banned for on-road transportation, which I highly doubt.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-26/california-mulls-fol…
So it is simply unavoidable that MX will go electric- unless recreational usage of IC engines continues after they are banned for on-road transportation, which I highly doubt.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-26/california-mulls-fol…
If the neighboring states still allow ICE engines...and, for example, someone from Nevada wants to take their family to Disneyland...so they load the family in their gas powered SUV, do they have to stop at the CA boarder and take a bus?
The Shop
Gearhead for life.
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If electric (or whatever) vehicles can better the ICE vehicles in performance, reliability, range, price etc etc...I'll start buying them.
All I know is I stopped at the gas station on my way to the grocery store the other night, filled up my car in about 3 minutes and left (knowing I'll get nearly 500 miles out of those 14 gallons of gas...it's a VW TDI), as I'm leaving I notice at electric car with some converter or something plugged into the side of the building (charging his batteries as best I can assume)...I have no idea how long he'd been there, but he was there when I pulled up (the driver was sitting in the drivers seat playing on his phone) and there when I left.
About 45 minutes later, as I drive past that same gas station on my way home, and I glance over and the car is still sitting there plugged into the building.
This is a MAJOR issue electric cars will have...range...and then recharge times. I don't care if I can get 500 miles out of a charge if I have to part for over an hour to charge the batteries. That would make a road trip miserable.
California is an international model on energy usage and will likely pare down construction of power plants and electricity infrastructure in favor of smaller, distributed energy resources and energy efficiency. There is also abundant seasonal hydro so I don't think charging supply for EV infrastructure will be a stopper.
Say the ban goes into effect 2025, so buy a 2024 gas car. You don't have to give up gas cars until the gasoline dries up, which will happen some day. Hopefully not in my lifetime.
What would be cool is to build the roof of the car out of solar panels and make it at least somewhat self charging. We don't currently have the technology to power a car with that little of solar panels, but as tech advances.
And yes, I'm in favor of bankrupting big oil. They've had their stranglehold long enough.
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