Look to Porsche who is investing in synth fuels to keep their ICE cars on the market. Analog cars will only get cooler with time.
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Just like the swiss time trials when Seiko took over the accuracy on mechanical swiss, Ev's have destroyed ICE vehicles
Wouldn't EVs be more like the Swiss quartz movements that beat the Japanese and Swiss mechanicals (which would be ICE)?
I think you'll be surprised in the next 20 years at where the auto industry is going. EVs are not sustainable.
There's a reason Toyota is sticking with Hybrid and not going all-in on pure EV, and it's not because Toyota isn't keeping up.
Interesting to think about how ICE cars' marketing could shift to focus on the romance/longevity of mechanical operation. Maybe they will transition completely away from the use of electronics in order to appeal to owners who want to be able to tinker.
Maybe they will transition completely away from the use of electronics in order to appeal to owners who want to be able to tinker.
Unfortunately, that would be impossible due to safety and emissions regulations. That would also set them back immensely in terms of reliability.
Good point, it'd probably have to just be faux low-tech, all analog dashboard gauges and such.
Actually I think that's a pretty good comparison right now. So many EVs are built very cheaply, and might be technically more efficient at getting you from place A to B, but the romance, excitement, quality, and heritage are almost always an after thought.
I know there are some Tesla-truthers that will find that offensive, but after getting the chance to drive their newest Tesla for an entire day up to the S P100D, and riding along in a friend's Rivian, I'm always happy to get back into my ICE cars I've owned over the years.
Thanks for the Elon rant none of us needed.
It’s an interesting thought. I like mechanisms. I like elegant engineering. My cars have always been stick-shift, I prefer my acoustic bikes to my ebike, prefer hand powered coffee grinders and can openers to electric ones.
But I am enamored with solar quartzes.
Dunno what the theme would be. Elegance, simplicity, accuracy, independence, least tech required to do the job right?
I can see electric cars replacing petrol cars. Certainly in areas where people can throw solar panels on top of their garage and charge their car off-grid. (Micro-grids are the future in any case.)