Originally Posted by hatt
Originally Posted by metroplex
Originally Posted by jeepman3071
EV's represent a very small percentage of the number of new vehicles sold, and an even smaller percentage of the vehicles currently on the roads. You can bet that there will continue to be research and development for improving PCMOs in order to reduce friction (improve mpg) and reduce emissions, even if it is ever so slightly.
By 2035, gas engines will be sold at 0% at least in Europe due to the ban. GM even announced they are entering 2020 with gas engines and plan to enter 2030 with all EVs. I can't wait. I won't have to change engine/trans/gear/transfer case oil or coolant anymore. Maybe not even brakes if you use 1-pedal driving. Just tires!
I saw that 400k mile Tesla Model X maintenance report and he basically just changed a lot of tires over those 400k miles. With a Ford SUV, he would have gone through half a dozen water pumps, a dozen transfer cases, maybe 2 or 3 transmissions, maybe 1 engine if it was a 3.5/3.7 V6 and several turbochargers.
Are the cars going to fly too? I heard something about flying cars growing up. I still don't see them on the lots. All electric fleets are right there with the flying cars. The same people pushing electric cars also don't want to build any substantial electrical generation. It's all nonsense at this point.
Electric cars have proven themselves in the past 5-10 years. It's battery technology and charging that has to catch up, but it is getting there much much faster than pipe dreams of flying cars or hydrogen fuel cells. Driving across the US in a Tesla is totally doable right now.
Porsche, as an example, is totally serious about this as they have focused a lot of their motorsports into electrics just recently along with faster charging. I think Tesla was critical in breaking this anti-EV barrier with the Model S P100D that basically smokes a bunch of gas powered supercars in acceleration.
Even the process for buying cars has been rattled by Tesla. Ford found out 80% of the Mach-E reservations were done online never stepping into a dealer. GM's ordering process for the Bolt is almost a carbon copy of Tesla's.
This isn't related, but we've basically switched out all of our gas powered landscape/snow removal equipment to electric, and found the electric versions to be 110% superior with the exception of battery capacity/charge time. But battery chemistry technology is always improving, same with charging technology.