***That and 50cents might get me another "I'm shocked" meme.
Posted on 12/27/2021 10:32:18 PM PST by blueplum
The current crop of engines will apparently be Hyundai's final fuel burners.
The electric push is on as manufacturers race to position themselves for an EV future. Many companies have made verbal commitments to going all-electric, but Hyundai could be taking a bold step by ending the development of future internal combustion engines right now.
That's the word in a report from Business Korea. In an article that dropped just before Christmas, the report claims Hyundai Motor Group officially cut its engine development department at the company's Namyang Research Institute south of Seoul. The report also states the automaker's powertrain group was reorganized into an electrification development team, and that a battery development group....
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Do you still use old, tired, crusty analogies that have been fully discredited? Yup, you do. That’s what we can expect from a house RINO.
+1
What could possibly go wrong?
Good to see that freeper fear mongering has found a new outlet besides covid vaccines.
Toyota is going with hydrogen engines and hydrogen fuel cells. Battery EVs aren’t going to be the only choices.
https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/35209996.html
Columbus sailed the ocean in about 3 weeks. Today we sail it in about 2 weeks with cruise ships.
And Columbus wasn’t using niche market transportation. EVERYONE sailed at that speed.
So what is your point?
An EV makes libtards feel soothed. Soothsayer automobiles.
The first electric cars were more than a hundred years ago, before even gasoline combustion engines. As per usual, your house RINO analogy fails.
Well said.
So how do we harness that hard rain?
25mpg
It’s a virtual improvement. Because the guvmint is now the biggest force in the marketplace.
The solar power market didn’t move when everyone said it would. It took subsidies to get it to move. Just like it takes subsidies to make Tesla a profitable company.
Naturally, house RINOs like you, y’all just LOVE subsidies and big guvmint giveaways and bureaucracies tellin’ the market what to do.
Hmmm, now what is that system when Government and Industry collude, Fash....something.
***NUKE. In particular, Low ENERGY Nukes.
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No dispute about advancing nuclear technology but the crazies amongst us haven’t allowed a new reactor to be built in several decades. My point in all of this is that the energy must come from somewhere and wishing for a new technology won’t make it so. Throwing all of our eggs in the EV basket is beyond stupid, without:
- Infrastructure to support massive increase of power transmission / distribution
- Reliable, KNOWN technology to create said electrical power
You can be sure that they will figure out a way to tax drivers one way or another. Toll roads, mileage reports, trackers, who knows how they will do it. But, they will do it.
Hyundai just went all in with Hybrid\Plug in almost all modesl.
They are also into fuel-cells.
Their first ever pickup truck does not have a hybrid or plug in connected to it ...yet
‘cept, right now, who can afford them?
Toyota knew they were going to take a price beating to get their Hybrids to the US market and they did it anyway.
Will any of them take the same beating to get the EV to this market ?
should be interesting...
In the meantime, England has moved the ban date for gas-powered vehicles from 2040 to 2030, prompting some Brits to ask if they should start riding horses. But no nation has explained how they will compensate for 2x to 4x the pressure on the electric grid.During WWI, at least a few Brits resorted to methane to run their autos...
EVs can be blisteringly fast. I don’t quite understand the hatred for them on FR—if you don’t like them, don’t drive them. However, you must recognize that EVs are the future of vehicles, both terrestrial and aerial, like it or not.
How long before the government won't give us a choice?
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