Is the end near for Internal Combustion?

[rightwinger]

More auto companies are moving to Electric Vehicles. Nobody is investing in R&D for Internal Combustion. The handwriting is on the wall.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/27/business/ford-layoffs/index.html

As Ford shifts to producing more electric vehicles, it expects to lay off a number of employees, mostly engineers, in North America over the coming days.

 

[Meister]

define "near".

 

[Harry Dresden]

More auto companies are moving to Electric Vehicles. Nobody is investing in R&D for Internal Combustion. The handwriting is on the wall.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/27/business/ford-layoffs/index.html

we should be far beyond that...

 

[rightwinger]

define "near".

We will see a major shift in the next decade with most cars being electric within 20

The car companies won’t support two platforms

 

[Harry Dresden]

We will see a major shift in the next decade with most cars being electric within 20

The car companies won’t support two platforms

many think driverless cars will be happening in 20-30 years too....

 

[Mr Natural]

The internal combustion engine is a Rube Goldberg device. Granted it’s come a long way since its invention, an electric motor is so much simpler and more efficient and no doubt cheaper to put together.

 

[yidnar]

More auto companies are moving to Electric Vehicles. Nobody is investing in R&D for Internal Combustion. The handwriting is on the wall.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/27/business/ford-layoffs/index.html

As Ford shifts to producing more electric vehicles, it expects to lay off a number of employees, mostly engineers, in North America over the coming days.

gov mandated and enforced business through regulations is totalitarianism .. you just cant understand that the so called [green] agenda is nothing more than a power grab can you ?

 

[rightwinger]

The internal combustion engine is a Rube Goldberg device. Granted it’s come a long way since its invention, an electric motor is so much simpler and more efficient and no doubt cheaper to put together.

No need for a cooling system, emissions control, exhaust system, fuel injection, transmission

Electric is just a battery, motor and brakes

 

[toobfreak]

More auto companies are moving to Electric Vehicles. Nobody is investing in R&D for Internal Combustion. The handwriting is on the wall.

The GOVERNMENT handwriting is on the wall. What will auto makers do when sales of EVs slump off due to high cost of buying and operating as electricity costs soar, few charging stations abound, and there are power outages, businesses crumble, city services slump off and transportation headaches abound?

Eventually, people and business will revolt, and the world will rediscover cheap, affordable, efficient gasoline and other abundant fuels.

 

[rightwinger]

gov mandated and enforced business through regulations is totalitarianism .. you just cant understand that the so called [green] agenda is nothing more than a power grab can you ?

Which Government?

US, EU, Japan, China, S Korea
Are they all in on it just to piss off Republicans?

 

[AZrailwhale]

The GOVERNMENT handwriting is on the wall. What will auto makers do when sales of EVs slump off due to high cost of buying and operating as electricity costs soar, few charging stations abound, and there are power outages, businesses crumble, city services slump off and transportation headaches abound?

Eventually, people and business will revolt, and the world will rediscover cheap, affordable, efficient gasoline and other abundant fuels.

The same thing will happen that happened in the seventies and eighties when Detroit was trying to sell consumers cars they didn't want. Someone will step up and produce ICE cars and trucks and make a huge profit.

 

[yidnar]

Which Government?

US, EU, Japan, China, S Korea
Are they all in on it just to piss off Republicans?

Globalism is you friend eh ?

 

[petro]

Won't affect me.
I already hid my Red Barchetta in my uncle's barn.

 

[rightwinger]

The same thing will happen that happened in the seventies and eighties when Detroit was trying to sell consumers cars they didn't want. Someone will step up and produce ICE cars and trucks and make a huge profit.

No car company in the world is investing in ICE

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

LOTS of companies invest in shit they think is going to make them trillions of dollars..........and ends up ruining their companies.


There will ALWAYS be fuel powered engines.
Batteries can't cut it. Not in THIS century anyway.

 

[toobfreak]

The same thing will happen that happened in the seventies and eighties when Detroit was trying to sell consumers cars they didn't want. Someone will step up and produce ICE cars and trucks and make a huge profit.

Unless we still have fascists in government who outlaw and criminalize ICE while slapping massive fees on gasoline.

 

[toobfreak]

No car company in the world is investing in ICE

What is there to invest in, stoop? We've been doing IC for 120 years.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

CNN?
Communist
Nefarious
Network

 

[rightwinger]

What is there to invest in, stoop? We've been doing IC for 120 years.

Lately ICE R&D has centered on emissions reduction, fuel economy, computer systems, lightweight materials

How much of that has been done 120 years ago Stoop?

 

[justoffal]

More auto companies are moving to Electric Vehicles. Nobody is investing in R&D for Internal Combustion. The handwriting is on the wall.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/27/business/ford-layoffs/index.html

As Ford shifts to producing more electric vehicles, it expects to lay off a number of employees, mostly engineers, in North America over the coming days.

They will be needed for railroad and ocean freight.
It's much too expensive to try to run a freight train on Electricity via power line. You can do it with town trolleys but never cross country freight.