by slothead » Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:26 pm
My 1 1/2 cents - ICE's will be around for a long time but as a decreasing slice of the auto market. There are ways to produce electricity with much less or no pollution, at least locally. My college is carbon neutral - produces heat from bio mass (by products of timber industry), all newer buildings are geothermal (deep wells access heat below), a new solar array is nearly complete and a wind turbine is planned. There are parking spaces where staff & faculty can charge electric cars for free.
In cities where pollution can be a major problem parking spaces can be powered by solar cells so with a single fee you get parking and power to drive home. Some places, likely where Volvo's major markets are, are more serious about this than other places.
Recently I drove 6 hours to see a 3 hour big block modified race - a field of 800 horsepower fire breathing ICE's that shook the grandstands. I don't think I'd do that for a field of whisper quiet electric cars, but I do expect to park my Mustang beside more of them as time goes by.
Slothead