I do think there should be some exemptions for classic and antique cars that can be converted to run on synthetic fuels.
However the vast majority of cars need to ditch ICE asap!
How are they going to get fuel when the infrastructure for fuel is gone? There won’t be any gas stations any more when all cars are electric.
Perfectly fine as long as you tax the hell out of them
I don’t see ICE sports cars as much of a thing.
If you look at the performance specs of the new electric Hummer (as in the giant US SUV brick shaped thing). It matches the performance of many high-end sports car out there in what I would call “normal” operating conditions.
The key is that if you have a Hummer and a fairly expensive sports car both at a red light and they both hammer the “gas” they will be neck and neck. The hummer will leave most luxury ICE sedans in its dust.
Quite simply this is unacceptable for people who buy luxury cars.
Thus the typical luxury car buyer will opt for a luxury electric car if only for its performance not being embarrassing.
The other simple reality is that obtaining the fuel will be a giant pain in the ass. I suspect that instead of new luxury ICE cars being driven by the rich you will see far older luxury and antique cars being driven on Sundays or other limited conditions with a few die-hards refusing to go electric.
There won’t be much of a market for new ICE cars and I would guess you will see extremely limited production runs at extremely high prices. Even with improvements naturally occurring in material science as well as superior computer designs and computer control allowing for ever more amazing gas engines it just won’t be much of a priority for any car company.
Kind of like modern horse breeding / genetic modifications would allow for amazing horses to pull a buggy it just isn’t much of a thing.
If anything, I suspect it will be the rich who first move to electric cars, followed by the middle class who don’t want to appear poor, and finally the poor will have combustion banned on them.
If anything this synthetic fuel and government waivers are just being pushed by a car industry that still can’t wrap its head around the electric future that is coming like a storm to rock their industry.
One interesting effect will be a momentary glut of fairly OK luxury cars. You will see people driving them who normally would never be able to afford such expensive cars as both the rich and the middle class dump their ICE cars. This will result in one pulse of ICE cars moving to the poor and then exceeding their ability to keep on the roads all about the same time. These same poor will have somewhat dumped their cheaper original cars which otherwise might have been affordable to keep on the roads for a greater number of years.
By synthetic fuels, does that include coal liquefaction and the Fischer-Tropsch process? Most so called synthetic fuel is produced by this process and it is extraordinarily polluting. The SASOL plant in South Africa is the largest point source of carbon dioxide in the world at the moment according to multiple sources.
I don’t understand. The article is saying that ICEs that can run on synthetic fuels will still be allowed. But is there any ICE that *can’t* be run on synthetic fuels? The whole point of synthetic fuels is that they are a carbon-neutral drop-in replacement for fossil fuels.
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I do think there should be some exemptions for classic and antique cars that can be converted to run on synthetic fuels.
However the vast majority of cars need to ditch ICE asap!
How are they going to get fuel when the infrastructure for fuel is gone? There won’t be any gas stations any more when all cars are electric.
Perfectly fine as long as you tax the hell out of them
I don’t see ICE sports cars as much of a thing.
If you look at the performance specs of the new electric Hummer (as in the giant US SUV brick shaped thing). It matches the performance of many high-end sports car out there in what I would call “normal” operating conditions.
The key is that if you have a Hummer and a fairly expensive sports car both at a red light and they both hammer the “gas” they will be neck and neck. The hummer will leave most luxury ICE sedans in its dust.
Quite simply this is unacceptable for people who buy luxury cars.
Thus the typical luxury car buyer will opt for a luxury electric car if only for its performance not being embarrassing.
The other simple reality is that obtaining the fuel will be a giant pain in the ass. I suspect that instead of new luxury ICE cars being driven by the rich you will see far older luxury and antique cars being driven on Sundays or other limited conditions with a few die-hards refusing to go electric.
There won’t be much of a market for new ICE cars and I would guess you will see extremely limited production runs at extremely high prices. Even with improvements naturally occurring in material science as well as superior computer designs and computer control allowing for ever more amazing gas engines it just won’t be much of a priority for any car company.
Kind of like modern horse breeding / genetic modifications would allow for amazing horses to pull a buggy it just isn’t much of a thing.
If anything, I suspect it will be the rich who first move to electric cars, followed by the middle class who don’t want to appear poor, and finally the poor will have combustion banned on them.
If anything this synthetic fuel and government waivers are just being pushed by a car industry that still can’t wrap its head around the electric future that is coming like a storm to rock their industry.
One interesting effect will be a momentary glut of fairly OK luxury cars. You will see people driving them who normally would never be able to afford such expensive cars as both the rich and the middle class dump their ICE cars. This will result in one pulse of ICE cars moving to the poor and then exceeding their ability to keep on the roads all about the same time. These same poor will have somewhat dumped their cheaper original cars which otherwise might have been affordable to keep on the roads for a greater number of years.
By synthetic fuels, does that include coal liquefaction and the Fischer-Tropsch process? Most so called synthetic fuel is produced by this process and it is extraordinarily polluting. The SASOL plant in South Africa is the largest point source of carbon dioxide in the world at the moment according to multiple sources.
I don’t understand. The article is saying that ICEs that can run on synthetic fuels will still be allowed. But is there any ICE that *can’t* be run on synthetic fuels? The whole point of synthetic fuels is that they are a carbon-neutral drop-in replacement for fossil fuels.
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