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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people claiming the demise of gas engine is imminent are wrong. Did Apple kill the mechanical watch? I think there’s always going to be a desire for gas cars.

I also don’t understand what the world does with all the used batteries once these electric cars are obsolete? Sounds like a highly toxic mess?[/quote]

At the low end of the market mechanical watches [b]are[/b] dead, killed by the Apple watch and cell phones. Only mechanical segment watch that is still afloat is high end, and in that case it is more akin to jewelry than a time measuring device. Do you know many people under 30 that have a mechanical watch?

The correct analogy is the transition from dumb phones to smart phones. It took about 5 years. Of course cars will take longer but it will happen. Many studies predict that it will happen by the end of the decade.

[b]The batteries will be recycled.[/b][/quote]

Bullsh*t.[/quote]

You have no clue what you are talking about.

Look up Redwood Materials startup that is developing battery recycling technology. They raised $800M to date, battery recycling will be big business.[/quote]

Then why not wait until they actually can be recycled to switch?  So many startups fail.  Down the road they might be recycled, but that takes resources too, so the recycling has to outweigh the output required to recycle.  We just aren't close to there yet.  It's the same reason ethanol fuel failed -- it turns out that it takes so much to produce it wasn't environmentally friendly due to efficiency failures.

Personally I think developing much more efficient hybrids would be far superior.  No one in their right mind wants to road trip a fully electric car, and flying is so bad for the environment.  Having the gasoline backup just makes sense.[/quote]

Why wait if it's not a problem now, and won't be in the future because it will be solved by the time batterries reach their life end? With the used car market those batteries will likely be on the road for 15-20 years more. Why aren't you waiting on buying a gas car until we solve global warming? Because it's not a problem now.

LOL at the ethanol comparison which is entirely government driven, can you name a $1B ethanol startup? Sure some startups fail, but when this amount of smart money is poured to jump start an entire industry there will be winners.

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