Posted on 10/17/2017 10:52:16 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
A global tipping point for electric cars could come as early as 2022, as battery costs decrease and concerns about range and infrastructure ease. That’s from analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who in a little over a year’s time have turned even more optimistic about the future dominance of electric cars over internal-combustion vehicles. In a Tuesday note, the analysts forecast that one in three cars will be purely electric by 2030; their July 2016 prediction was one in 10 by the same year. “There are several factors converging that have led us to revise our thinking — a combination of changing customer preferences, increasingly viable product, regulation, and infrastructure,” they said in the note.
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Home solar power costs about half the price of the car you’d power with it.
I Still think we need to make more NUKES though, to power these things.
It’s a liberal agenda item for us all...gas cars to electric cars to bikes.
How much do you want to bet?
I can see a household with two cars, one electric for commuting to work and the other when you need a real car/truck.
But it won’t be anytime soon.
A new Honda Civic gets 42mpg, is maintenance free for about 100,000 miles other than oil changes and tires. And it will run for at least 200,000 miles.
It will cruise on the hiway at 80mph.
And they cost less than $19,000.
For a darn nice little car.
How does anybody’s electric vehicle exceed that value quotient?
My Lexus Crossover RX450 is about the best car I’ve ever driven bar none.
Well at $61,000 I hope so.
How may times in succession?
I think the hybrid combination gas and electric is the best choice for a car.
As long as we're being ‘progressive’, I say we replace all politicians with robotics and electronics. No pensions, no vacations, no appearances on TV etc. We'll just have ‘representative’ electronics that are programmed in accordance with the electorate's wishes for that election cycle, and that will be in contact with the electorate electronically. If you vote for A, the electronics will vote for A in Congress etc. No vote flipping, no bait and switch.
We could even add personalities. We could have a robotic Al Sharpton that would say things like ‘no justice, no peace’, and take money/energy/whatever from other robots secretly. The possibilities are endless, and if we have elementary school children program them they will be smarter than the politicians of today.
I always marvel at these people who make the quantum jump to electric cars without considering hybrids, which have a brighter future, as a transition.
Do they ever consider wintry/rainy driving with the heater going full bore, defrosters/wipers going, headlamps and radio on? OK, turn off the radio, but the drain is still horrendous.
And then there is the infrastructure problem, as mentioned elsewhere.
Pushrods? Not had an engine wit those since I got rid of my old 5.0 Mustang. Pistons, now.....I am amazed at the engine longevity of some makers engines. Nothing to run up 200,000 miles on some.
Auto industry development cycles are minimum of 6 years so no way are we going to see the end of the gas engine any time soon
Doubt we will ever see complete phase out of combustion engine.
We will see very well integrated hybrids that use regenerative braking and a very efficient small internal combustion engine to keep the battery charged
Very high performance, energy efficiency and smaller battery volume
Driving, for me, is not about going from point A to point B. My car of choice, is a 1960s 500hp manual transmission car that gets about 16 mpg. it does not have ABS brakes or traction control or such.
It makes some noise due to the long tube headers, and it spins the rear tires at times :=)
It burns a lot of gasoline that I happily for.
Driving is the joy of travel, freedom of movement and the thrill of driving a great car that I actively participate in.
EV and driverless cars are not for me.
This is why liberal thinking is so dangerous. They NEVER think through all the consequences of their Pie in the Sky ideas!
Most home neighborhoods are not set up to have lots of people charging cars overnight due to the transformers typically used.
Don’t forget the flying cars in everyone’s garage.
From Tesla’s webpage,
“A Tesla Supercharger can replenish 170 miles of range in its cars in about 30 minutes.”
That’s not bad and it may get down to you 20 minutes 200 miles some day. It still no close enough to my 7 minutes 300 mile range of my gas guzzler.
Lose power, lose driving. Can still get somewhere with gas.
People no longer think further ahead than the absolute present.
Yeah, that is why Tesla just announced 700 layoffs.
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