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Old 05-02-2019, 08:55 PM   #446 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by hayden55 View Post
Thinking on it now I honestly think the next 25 years will shift towards hybrids and not EVs. Still quite a bit too spendy over the base hybrid models to save a couple bucks a month
Agreed. Faster rates of EV adoption rely on costs to come down, which is not a certainty. It would be a mistake to look back on 20 years of lithium ion prices getting cut in half every 5 years (or whatever that number is) and expect that trend to follow indefinitely. The same logic was applied to transistor sizes, and look at us now. They're about as small as they're going to get for the foreseeable future. Our iPhones might grow wings, but they probably won't get substantially better for a long time.

Hybrids and plug-in hybrids have an important role to play in the transition; perhaps even a dominant role.

The only thing that makes me reconsider this is that most families have multiple cars, and 1 of those could easily be an EV.
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