Hope your scenario includes a back up car for vacations, or doing something other than commuting to work. I generally cover 400-600 miles a day on vacation. I don’t take MANY vacations, but I’d sure be pissed if I could only do a few hundred miles a day going on one.
“Hope your scenario includes a back up car for vacations, or doing something other than commuting to work. I generally cover 400-600 miles a day on vacation. I don’t take MANY vacations, but I’d sure be pissed if I could only do a few hundred miles a day going on one.”
Gasoline and gasoline-powered cars are not going to disappear for reasons you already know, most especially so in the American West. Gasoline will commonly be available even in 2060 and taxed at about $10/gallon.
You know your needs and you know your wants - better than me and better than John Kerry. Hopefully, what you know pays enough to feed the gas pump electronic payment card reader.
Maybe ICE’s would stick around but only in diesel form. They would share the diesel infrastructure with the long haul trucking industry. Cars would go almost totally electric and would cover the short and medium range role — daily commute, getting groceries, driving to the next town to see friends. Long distance and work would be handled by trucks and specialty long distance cruisers, all of which run on diesel. Gasoline would still be around but would become a heavily taxed niche item. Diesel would remain abundant and affordable because it piggybacks on the economy of scale of the trucking industry. Just tossing out a thought here...