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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]EV is not the future.[/quote]

Engineer here. I'm pretty sure it is. I grew up reading car magazines in the 80s and 90s; I race cars as a hobby; I'm an automotive enthusiast. However, EVs are the future.

The problem with today's EVs is that they are still early solutions. The motor technology is improving, and the battery chemistry for certain has not been finalized. It took gasoline/diesel engines decades for the details to be worked out and go through iterations of refinement to the modern day where they squeeze out 200+HP from a liter of displacement. The process will be *MUCH* quicker for EVs, but we are not there yet. Maybe another 5-10 years. And this is why I am not buying an EV now, because it will certainly be obsolete in relatively short order - and I don't mean that the EVs sold now will be unusable in 5-10 years, but that there would be something *so much better* - I would liken it to the generational improvements we saw from the Apple iPhone and early Android devices. Things improved dramatically generation over generation until the modern day when the need to upgrade is far less justified. I'm waiting for EVs to reach that level of refinement before switching.

Until then, I'm going to buy one more high-end gas car... with two doors and a manual transmission. :)[/quote]

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