Reply To: 2030 ban on ICE cars thrown into chaos

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Brydo

    Yes Kezo wind is free and it can make electricity. This electricity can go straight into an EV and charge a battery.  This same electricity can be used to make e-fuels where you put in more energy than you get out. So you have an entire process to get you to less power than you started with, how does that make any sense?

    In relation to plug in hybrids they are a half way house, they are being used to introduce EVs to the public at large and will be phased out over the coming years as an engine and a battery will be far more expensive than a battery on its own.

    There will be petrol stations but they will be full of ev chargers with the odd petrol pump and no diesel pump.

    I think we continually underestimate the amount of money being invested in battery technology and the strides being taken to reduce the costs. The removal of rare metals, the change to cheaper more available substances both of these together with the reduction in cost that comes with scaling up and you have a car that is cheaper, better to drive and cleaner than any ICE car no matter what type of fuel you put in it.

    As battery tech and chemistry improves reduced range in cold weather, a phenomenon also associated with ICE cars, will be reduced to a thing of the past for most climates.

    Its more than likely there will be ICE cars on the road after I’m dead and gone, after all there are still horse and carts on the road decades after they became obsolete.