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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Maybe, but who wants to drive such a junker?
What exactly is the “problem” the EVs are supposed to solve?
re: ‘Maybe, but who wants to drive such a junker?”
What kind of projection is this?
How old is your house?
I’m thinking you don’t maintain your vehicles ...
Shut your yappy little Chinese mouth.
I’ve been called many things, but I think this is a first for ‘Chinese’.
AAABEST, he tells you who he is in his screen name.
House RINO.
Now, that said, EVs are the future. Not the battery ones, they suck. However, the fuel-cell ones are the future. 5 minute refuels (hydrogen) and long ranges.
EVs are the future.
And always will be!
Doesn't mean they'll succeed.
Compare to a personal cellphone back in the mid-1990s. If you could go back in time to 1995 and tell people that these hand-held "bricks" would very soon disrupt virtually every industry and become your main source for information, banking, shopping, entertainment, photography, movie-making, navigation and controlling appliances in your home (among many other things), they would simply not believe you.
"Where would the bandwidth for all that come from?" they might ask, just as critics of EVs today wonder where will all the "bandwidth" (electricity) will come from to charge up all these electric vehicles. They will point to the relative dearth of EV charging stations, scoff at the "mileage" we get today from these things, and write the whole enterprise off.
Not realizing that many of the brightest engineers in the world are currently putting their minds to increasing the capability of EVs by leaps and bounds.
Just as it was hard to imagine in 1995 that in just a decade or two, your "cellphone" would be holding all your data and photos, streaming all your music and video, as well as conducting nearly all your financial transactions, it is just as hard to imagine today that in a decade or two, EVs will charge up in minutes, have all the bells and whistles of your luxury cars today and will get up to 1,000 miles between charges.
The EVs of 10-20 years from now will look nothing like the EVs of today. In fact, the EVs of today will look prehistoric, like the Blackberries, the iPods, and the compact disc players look to us today - and that were so cutting edge just 20 years ago.
As impressive as a Tesla vehicle might look today, in a decade or so, it will resemble how a 486-based computer running Windows 3.1 and DOS looks to us today.
The government can put in all the silly "feel-good" mandates on EVs they want but it will be private industry that will propel EVs to market dominance. Tesla is about to have a lot more company in the EV space.
Competition is good.
Again, what is the problem EVs are trying to solve here, that current cars don’t.
Cellphones were totally different than landlines. But in the end, an EV is still just a car.
Spot on! A few years ago EVs had 0% market share. Now it’s climbing extremely fast. You can’t stop revolutionary tech changes. The cell phone comparison is very good.
An EV is just a car. It does nothing that current cars cannot do, they get you from A to B. They aren’t faster or anything.
Actually the Tesla S plaid is the best performing car under $2m. That’s my main interest, the torque and acceleration. Don’t care at all about any enviro stuff. I’m not saying it’ll be as fast as cell phones took over, but it’s going to be pretty fast.
Well The Priests of the Temples of Syrinx had dictated that everyone shall drive an EV.
Now you’re just annoying.
Did you know the energy consumption in the US in 2000 was TEN TIMES the energy consumption in 1950? Increasing the energy production is trivial if people are willing to pay the price. With the standard of living easily outstripping energy consumption, thanks to technology/industrialization, paying a little more for energy will not be a noticeable issue. Fission is easily available to implement, and in a couple decades, fusion will wildly change the equations.
Grow up, and admit that ICE technology is going the way of coal/steam and draft animals — or get used to being laughed at.
You are a fool or a liar.
Most people aren’t going to care about those things, and won’t be able to afford that kind of performance. They are perfectly happy with the performance of their current cars. What does an EV give them that their current car doesn’t?
Once the puzzle is solved with regard to increasing the range (between charges) to that of a gasoline powered automobile, people will flock to them in greater numbers.
Even when driving cross-country, I always stop around 600 miles for the day and rest at a motel. That's the barrier for me. Once we get to the 600 mile range, there's really no reason anymore for me not to buy one.
Again, what is the problem EVs are trying to solve here, that current cars don’t.
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I also noticed nobody will touch my question - What is the energy source for electricity that will replace oil based energy? Pick one:
Nuke
Coal / Natural Gas
Oil
Wind
Solar
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