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Old 06-25-2021, 01:40 PM   #64 (permalink)
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I'd say the IC engine has at least forty years of service life left.

1. They still don't have the range/charging problem beat. A 150 mile road trip takes as much planning as the Apollo program.

2. The electrical production infrastructure will be overwhelmed quickly if Problem #1 is beat. An electrical engineer calculated that to got 100% electric by 2040, we would have to be putting three 1000 Mw(e) nukes (or dispatchable upon demand equivalents) into service every day until 2040. The scope of the problem is that immense.
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