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Originally Posted by Nlkko
Your fossil-fuel run sports car and trucks will be gone. Just a matter of time.
This is just 10 years ago. Reminder how fast technology evolve.
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Computer technologies evolve very quickly, and the cel phone pic you quoted is an example of that. But many other things evolve much more slowly. Esp with vehicles, they are not cheap to buy or replace, and cars are generally quite durable nowadays. Getting 10 - 15 years of service out of a car is hardly surprising, so I'd anticipate that to move much more slowly.
The infrastructure will also need to be there to support the change. Can you imagine every gas station turning 1/2 of its space into EV recharge stations? And then you have to wait at least 15 - 30 min per vehicle instead of the current 5 min. Home owners have to install a home charger, and the total costs (including installation, and esp the installation) is not cheap. Apartments will probably need to install at least 1 charger for every 2 cars for it to be viable, and how much is the costs for that? Does the building even have the capacity to handle that level of power draw? Or worse -- where do you find space for it? I know with my old apartment, 2 rows of cars park next to each other (with the ends facing each other), and there is no space or anywhere really to install chargers. And still more people park their cars on the street. How do they charge their cars?
As I continue to turn into a bigger old geezer, I am increasingly realizing how some things can change very quickly, but others can be so change resistant that it is simple no good way to change even when the current method is not sustainable.