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About 3% of new vehicles sold are all electric and there's lithium battery shortages.
Internal combustion engines aren't going anywhere.
An argument can be made that fully electric are worse for the environment.
If each electric car saves about 400 gallons of gas. Sounds good right but the impact is tiny.
Let's say instead of one EV we make 6 plug in hybrids using 1 electric car worth of batteries. Now you're saving 200 to 380 gallons of gasoline times 6.
Or say instead of 5 plugins you make 30 prius like hybrids with one electric cars worth of battery, each hybrid saves up to 100 gallons of gasoline per year, times 30.
So we are far better off making prius like hybrids and keeping internal combustion engines.
Obviously hybrids are going to have automatic transmissions.
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1984 chevy suburban, custom made 6.5L diesel turbocharged with a Garrett T76 and Holset HE351VE, 22:1 compression 13psi of intercooled boost.
1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
2011 leaf SL, white, portable 240v CHAdeMO, trailer hitch, new batt as of 2014.
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