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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 09 2019, @07:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the electrifying-news dept.

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)


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @05:37PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @05:37PM (#865067)

    maybe they can make enough progress to generate the hydrogen on demand from electrolysis and just burn it as it's generated. no storage issues then.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @05:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @05:43PM (#865070)

    or nitrogen from the air.

  • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday July 09 2019, @06:49PM

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Tuesday July 09 2019, @06:49PM (#865099)

    generate the hydrogen on demand from electrolysis

    They could use batteries to store the electrical energy required for this to work. Batteries have gotten a lot better in the past decade, to the point where this might be feasible.

    Basically, electrolysis adds chemical energy to water by breaking the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen. This energy can then be stored as hydrogen (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread). The oxygen doesn't need to be stored at all, because there's enough floating around in the air wherever a reasonable person might want to drive. That feature can save a lot of weight, as oxygen is heavy, but it does take a lot of volume or pressure, both of which have drawbacks.

    The idea of generating hydrogen on demand avoids the drawbacks associated with storage. You can temporarily store the chemical energy in a battery until you need to use it to make hydrogen, which can then be turned into thermal energy, which (of course) is then turned into mechanical energy by the internal combustion engine. Easy peasy!

    It's really hard to make the case for this...

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