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Speculating about the next years, Fred Lambert writes that once there are good all-electric options across the car market internal combustion engines will be as good as dead.
Before 2025, there's going to be a point where there's not going to be a single car buyer in their right mind who's going to want to buy a new gasoline car. Not a single one. Because they're going to look at the market, they're going to look at what's out there, and all the different electric car models that are out there now. By that point, by 2025, there's going to be dozens and dozens of more EV models than what's available today. And attractive ones!
It's going to be hard for someone to justify buying a gas-powered car at that point, because they're going to think about the resale value of it.
I think the resale value of gasoline cars is going to drop massively in the next five years, and predicted value is going to drop even more drastically. Buying a gasoline car right now is a bad choice. Buying a gasoline car within the next five years is going to be just a financial suicide for most people.
Earlier on SN:
Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range (2019)
Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars (2019)
Have We Reached Peak Car? (2018)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Immerman on Tuesday July 09 2019, @01:26PM
I wanted to believe in the ECAT too, but it *was* debunked almost immediately, to the extent that the inventor would allow it. Numerous researchers proposed simple demonstrations that would conclusively prove prove its legitimacy, rather than Rossi's own deeply flawed demonstrations. All were refused. What more do you want? You can't conclusively prove or debunk the thing without the inventor's cooperation, which he steadfastly refused to provide. That's really all the evidence you need as to his own belief in its viability.
The fact that he continued to draw in investors is proof enough of the hunger for a better power source.
As for EVs being impossible to buy without financing, how is that any different than an ICEV? Only the relatively wealthy can afford to buy a new car with cash, and most of those cars are targetted at a much poorer market segment.