If we assume the goal is <1% ICE vehicles on the road by 2050, then we need all new cars to be electric by 2033 at the latest, and 2020 to be sure.
I think we should have a system where cars spend their first 5 years in the north or south, and then spend the rest of their life in the other.
5 years of salt won’t kill a car, but 10+ will.
But lately I'm thinking maybe it'll be one of those fast, 2 motor electrics. Probably a lot more reliable, and faster too.
Yeah, but cars that don't buck, snort and belch fire are boring.
Production will slow and ICE will go where they still work well: vehicles that don’t move much, so the savings of E don’t make up their capitalized price.
And cold weather environments. Or where the grid is a recommendation rather than a dependency.
Probably the same reason you use "vehicle" rather than "car".
Europeans would say 'petrol or diesel' car, which is annoying, so ICE it is.
I guess we already churn through a huge amount of cars yearly as it is... I don't see many 1979 Plymouths on the road. They must have been all chopped up at some point, so this is probably a non issue. That said, I can't imagine the transition will be without pain for lots of people...