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If Toyota is offering a $15k hydrogen gas card to gain early adopters then offering a battery swap option seems like an equally necessary investment to gain early adopters. In time, batteries will out number vehicles on the road. Tesla has already said that they plan to move much of their material harvesting to in-house battery recycling, but the industry is already buying used batteries for grid storage and home storage. Alternatively, gathering used batteries from old cars to wrecked cars can be done to use for swapping. People are already doing used battery swaps to upgrade their P75D to a P85D. Like selling a used iPhone back to Apple or a third party manufacture, maybe old cars might be sold back to battery reclaimers and vehicle refurbishers. Even if the range on the battery is only 70%, for many people, 175 miles from a once 250 mile battery is still plenty of range until their next swap. Obviously, 70% charge performance from something like a 500 mile battery (350 miles) is definitely enough. There could be a tier pricing system for the swap or a monthly prescription or whatever a company would need to do to incentivize buyers, while recuperating their initial expenses.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g...-idUSKBN29X2AY
GM aims to end sale of gasoline, diesel-powered cars, SUVs, light trucks by 2035
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Also hope GM continues to make "last hoorah" versions of their cars. For example, I'm convinced the upcoming limited Cadillac CT4/5 Blackwings (reservations start 2/1/2021) with manual transmissions will be the last opportunity to buy an ICE version of those type cars, and they will only sell 250 of each this year. If ICE is going out, I want it to go out with a bang, not a whimper!
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I just hope the upcoming vehicles don't all suck.
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From a performance perspective, these cars obviously are fast and have a low COG, but they come off as a one trick pony. I hope they can find a way to incorporate enthusiast cars into the lineup. Either that, or we will all regress to classics.
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Yeah that is entirely a CUV silhouette. It is cartoonishly tall.
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And then gas becomes hard to get, and shit breaks with no support, etc.
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That's pretty much the height they drew all the silhouettes, don't think it was supposed to be accurate.
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There will probably be net zero biofuels. We have a long time. I’m almost 40, and I’ll likely be able to drive an ICE for the rest of my life, assuming a long life.
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Are you referring to the tank? It's 15 years, not 10.
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