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Originally Posted by Jeff/Illinois
This story is 2 years old, nothing new, but the coming electric car saga keeps popping up in the news. Ford is pushing for it also. Saw it today, again, on the local news channel. Didn't find a search here on this subject. This article is from the liberal CNN which hates automobiles and fossil fuels anyway.
This is relevant to our antique cars as folks are asking each other at the coffee shop where we gather 'Do you think we should just sell our cars and wait for the electrics, as the old cars will be obsoleted? Gasoline is going away.'
Well kinda sorta not gonna be. Electrics are still not cost efficient and won't be for a long time. Let alone the charging times vs. just fueling your car at Casey's and hitting the road again.
And someone on another Forum pointed out that as gasoline engines get more efficient and get better fuel mileage and burn more renewables, that will set electrics back even more making them less cost feasible.
Hybrid electric cars are working out very well!
So don't let go of that Model A petroleum products will be here decades after we all hit the dirt nap.
https://money.cnn.com/2017/07/05/tec...ars/index.html |
The article you link to was from July of 2017. Hardly breaking news.
The lead sentence is...
"The internal combustion engine has been around more than a century. And it should be around for decades to come,"
Further on it says...
" eliminating the gas engine altogether will be difficult, if not impossible."
and...
"Gasoline-powered cars themselves are becoming far more efficient, thanks to new technology and new materials. No one anticipates that gasoline engines will be regulated out of existence."
and...
"I don't expect internal combustion to go away any time soon," Cogan said. "It keeps getting better and better and better."
In any case, there is a big difference between what people are buying (or will buy) for their daily drivers, and the survival of collector cars. Apples and Oranges.