No worries, interest in deep-seabed mining is ticking up.
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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Current Teslas will last at least 100k miles with recharges. That’ll only improve to the point that ICE engine replaces will be a thing of the past.
That 7.2% of the market for these pos Fisher-Price EV cars is in Asia/China and their congested cities. Americans prefer automobiles and trucks that can fuel up fast (gasoline and diesel) and drive 1000 miles to see family and friends. Especially when the airlines are so effed up do to Covidxyz.
They’re a dying breed, pure EVs are taking over.
At $50 grand a pop? Think again! Over priced marked up POS can’t be bought by the majority of the public. It’s time we force politicians to live in this world. Trash their SUV, and make them drive Preass cars
EV are being forced on us thru legislation not the market. Companies adapt because they have to not because it’s a better product.
But it still takes too long to charge. I don’t want to hang around Blythe, California while that darn thing charges.
I want to pull up and lock onto a kiosk which swaps the battery in a minute.
It’s the friggin 21st century. We shouldn’t have to wait a long time to fuel a vehicle.
Charging time is a matter of tech, which always improves with time. We’re at the birth of this new tech still. It’ll eventually outlast and outpower (already does outpower) ICE.
The agenda is not to switch to EVs. The agenda is to switch to zero vehicles.
Yep. Commies collectively never lose sight of their ultimate goal. But there are a lot of gullible people who believe their lies, about whatever tale they are currently telling.
EVs may replace gas cars in highly urban European areas, and may even be suitable for some settled parts of Europe, but I doubt they will ever replace cars in America’s rural and surburban areas.
American farms are gas-powered. Equipment is gas powered. On the left, living off-grid is a competing fashion and high utility bills were a motivator for their lifestyle - Most off-grid solar setups barely power a house, much less a work vehicle used every day and a house. And a generator is a necessity in the winter. Both left and right, rural folk may drive an hour or more to get groceries or go to a job or visit family. Gas and propane enables the American lifestyle.
Speculative stocks may be hot, but even over a 20 year span, there’ll be no cost savings to the consumer. Calif is a prime example of how electric bills did not fall to practically nothing with the addition of solar and wind. They bills are higher than ever. Add in demand for hundreds of thousands of EVs in each sector that the grid can’t handle. We need to stop chasing European fads and pay more attention to how America runs, and it runs on gas, which, without the fed and state government boot on price and availability, is cheap and plentiful and doesn’t need replacing as an energy source in spite of the Gretas of the world.
100k try 300 to 500k with drive units going a million. There is not much to break in an induction motor with one moving part and bearings.
https://electrek.co/2019/04/13/tesla-model-3-longevity-claims-elon-musk/
I wouldn’t buy a Hyundai - the company will go broke and not be able to service your car under its warranty.
All to limit the amount of cars on the road hense climate change agenda Who’s going to be able to afford them and the repairs and they know it
This argument is inane. I guess that no one remembers the EV1 and EV2 of the early 80s. General Motors tried electrics and it was a dismal failure. With respect to solar and wind being the answer, no one is factoring in the recycling nightmare for the panels and turbine blades. That says nothing about all the rare birds that are being killed by the turbines. Not all ideas are good and people are not thinking these through.
This argument is inane. I guess that no one remembers the EV1 and EV2 of the early 80s. General Motors tried electrics and it was a dismal failure. With respect to solar and wind being the answer, no one is factoring in the recycling nightmare for the panels and turbine blades. That says nothing about all the rare birds that are being killed by the turbines. Not all ideas are good and people are not thinking these through.
“I’m hoping it’ll be a free market movement to EVs. So far it seems to be.”
Free market movement? The entire demand for electric vehicles have been created by idiotic government policies distorting the market. From artificially imposed fuel standards to tax credits that subsidize rich people to buy their toys.
Remember when incandescent light bulbs were outlawed because they used too much electricity? And now we are being forced onto the grid while they simultaneously destroy the cheapest and most reliable means of energy production.
And have no doubt, they will be able to disable your electric with the touch of a button if your social credit score is displeasing to them.
Go for it dude, I’ll watch.
Once the price becomes lower than gas or hybrid cars, there’s numerous charging stations and they make a seamless transition, then I see it possible in 10 years.
I recently bought a Rav4 hybrid and a friend with a Tesla. The only thing I don’t like about his car is the 250 mile range and the 40 minutes to charge. Long trips, as of now add several hours. Once that changes to 700 mile range and 5 minute charges then I’m in.
BTW, there are a few concerns. I don’t believe our power grid could handle 130 million cars and millions of trucks and busses being charged daily. Also, a lot of mechanics will be looking for jobs because these cars are very reliable, few to no hydraulics and brakes last 150k miles or more.
Where are you going to get the electricity to charge 50 million EVs?
They need to charge from the road while moving. Companies are working on this. Then not such a big battery is required which makes it much more affordable.
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