• Hypx@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Battery electric cars predate internal combustion. It is emphatically not the way to go. In fact, it is just a fad driven by subsidies and desire to appear green. It will die off once the subsidies go away and people realize that paying vastly more for an inferior type of car is not a smart decision.

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      ICE cars are being banned entirely in lots of jurisdictions; they’re not going to be coming back into fashion again. And hydrogen is a completely unworkable dead-end technology.

      So what technology is going to power the cars of the future?

      In my view, it’ll be battery-electric all the way, but with the battery cell technology changing over time as replacements for li-ion are gradually developed.

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        1 year ago

        Hopefully, the answer is also “fewer cars”. We don’t need to replace all of them, but getting city commuters from 5% bikes to 20% bikes would be transformative. Especially if we can also keep the current levels of working from home.

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        For starters, ICE cars have not been banned nearly anywhere. For seconds, hydrogen is not unworkable. That is pure BEV propaganda.

        The future will almost certainly be hydrogen cars. They are also EVs BTW. BEV fanatics are just bullshitting about this fact here. In reality, BEVs are not a sustainable idea and are doomed.

        Battery cell technology will change over time. Into fuel cells.