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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.
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Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range (2019)
Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars (2019)
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(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday July 09 2019, @07:47PM
Certainly. You're still faced with the difficulty and danger of storing highly compressed hydrogen though, and I don't think anyone has cracked that yet. Hydrogen has great promise, but so far it's even more difficult to store than electricity.
Besides, you don't really want to leave the tank empty, because you won't always know beforehand that you're going to end up wanting extended range today. So really you want a fuel that will be stable and easily contained over relatively long periods(maybe alcohol, methane, or any other easily-produced non-fossil fuel) so that you can leave your tank partially full and never have to worry about running out of battery charge at an inopportune time.