Peons are so much easier to control when they are only allowed to travel 50 miles once every 24 hours.
If this becomes the accepted wisdom, and from the auto manufacturers it looks like it is, then it will be a race to develop as much oil in the meantime as possible. Which also means cheap prices from here on.
So where is the energy going to come from? Fairy dust?
One thing about the Euro crew. They talk big but never hit their numbers.
my take
Level 4 self driving cars will caputure 5% new market share by 2022 and reach 30% new car market share by 2026. After reaching 30% share, level 4 & 6 will only gradually reach 90% share by 2035 or so. Since cars live for 10 years, there will be plenty of human driven cars on the road even in 2035.
Electric cars will be adopted on at a much faster rate than robot cars. The S curve of adoption will be insanely steep. The performance and reliability and space advantages are overwhelming for EVs; once battery costs come down. Battery costs are plummeting. Once the Chinese, Germans, GM, Ford, and Tesla have their battery factories up and running Battery prices will drop like a rock. EVs might have a 50-70% new market share by 2026.
I think most people are misreading the intentions of these government dictates. It's not about electric cars versus gasoline-powered cars. It's about forcing people to give up driving cars. Only a small sector of the population will be allowed to drive cars. Everyone else will be forced to restrict their movements and must use public transportation, or use bicycles. That's the only scenario that works with limited supplies of electricity to charge electric vehicles - limit the number of electric vehicles in use, and outright ban gasoline cars while they're at it. They'll have to pry mine out of my cold dead hands.
At 30MW per each to replace every gas station in America with a comparable charging capacity, don’t hold your breath on this happening any time soon. 30MW = a city of 70,000. Per Rush Limbaugh.
Only govt & the elites will enjoy the unlimited travel range that gasoline powered cars give. All the rest of the population must be controlled by every means possible including limiting their freedom of movement via crippling their automobile via the name of the environment (Again).
I presume they will have to repeal the laws of thermodynamics and physical chemistry first?
Everybody acknowledges there must be one, or several, “breakthroughs in battery technology” for this great replacement of gasoline and diesel to happen.
But what is the basis for believing that this is possible?
And as a result of this environmentally friendly decision, many countries are massively ramping up power generation to accommodate the vastly increase electrical demand. Or ...?
GM will stop making gasoline cars in the next 3 years because there is such a huge demand for electric cars.
Electrical cars are such a thrill to drive over mountain grades and down steep inclines; oh, and never mind the joy of driving to work in subzero temperatures or during a blizzard, really hot summers are a drivers joy especially in backed up traffic They will just buzz all over ... can’t wait for the buzzing to begin ...
Fools joy, I think.
Meanwhile, oil supplies glut the market as more and more oil is found and brought to market.
This is so inane. It takes gas energy to make electricity and the to convert electricity to motion you have yet another efficiency issue.
this will save crap and make things more complicated.
How does one become autonomous on a farm with electricity only? It cannot happen unless one has a gas generator...
I have a feeling they want to make people dependent on a government controled grid. Then they can ration the stuff or punish people as they wish. Bubye freedom.
This is poppycock as the Brits like to say.
Government does not have the right to ban the sale of certain kinds of cars. But nobody cares about that.
Tow trucks. Fire trucks. Ambulances. Police cars. Do they plan to make them non-petroleum too?
All power out in Puerto Rico. No electricity.
With gasoline, you keep running until you run out of gasoline.
Charging stations need electricity to run. A charge takes much longer than a gas fillup.
This is a really stupid idea.
Unless we start building mass transit equivalent to European countries that will not happen here in that time frame. Add to that decentralization of production so that rural areas produce much of their own food as they did before railroads and now trucks deliver essentials. What we’re seeing are edicts that ignore history.
Now that anthropogenic climate change is in the dust bin we can pursue getting off the planet to avoid the destruction of mankind by the next mass extinction event.
This is socialist bullshit .
Only aim is taking away freedom to travel.
Most economical use of luquid fuel is powering hybrids.
Flying cars predicted and promised for 80 years.
If it aint broke dobt try to fix it.
Stop worshipping technology.
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sooner we get rid of Saudi oil the better.