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Originally Posted by wbradley

Akio Toyoda told an auto industry summit that eliminating ICE production would cost Japan 5,000,000 jobs iirc. Plus the petroleum industry doesn't expect to lose most of their demand to fuel new generation vehicles over a short period. The world's power grids cannot support that yet either.
Hybrid tech is a nice middle ground and also will allow electricity infrastructure to build up for future demand where necessary through green forms of generation. The downfall to hybrid that it isn't efficient to recover the metals from the batteries presently. I read that a battery electric middle range vehicle's batteries contains approx. 22 lbs of Lithium. The price of lithium or its alternatives could skyrocket over time. Which brings us back to hydrogen fuel cells, when we reach a point where there is ample clean generated electricity to maintain a sizeable infrastructure.

Won't be long now.....