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therealzombieczar t1_iu7nzoi wrote

Reply to comment by waterbed87 in EU approves effective ban on new fossil fuel cars from 2035 by Wagamaga

my point is with the exception of digital/virtual tech nothing improves that fast...

the electric car was first in circulation in the 1920's...

however hydrogen, bio diesel and ethanol are all refuelable with a much higher energy density than batteries. and that is unlikely to change.

still have high hopes for hydrogen fual cell..

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waterbed87 t1_iu7on48 wrote

It does improve that fast. In 2010 the Tesla Roadster got 240 miles of range and it's performance was 0-60 in 4s. In 20202 the Tesla Model S gets 400 miles of range and 0-60 in 2s Double or Nearly doubled in both metrics. I'm confident by 2035 there will be electric trucks with like 500+ miles of range and like 200-250 towing which will be comparable to ICE and if fast charging takes 20 minutes today it will probably take like 10 by then.

Regardless this is still pointless, I really don't want to argue about hypotheticals. Time will tell, if the tech doesn't catch up ICE will stick around to fill in the gaps until it does. If something better than Electric comes along we'll see a shift to that instead eventually. The world isn't going to end because ICE gets completely or mostly phased out.

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