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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Mostly that I don't enjoy spending large parts of my day next to the exhaust systems of internal combustion engines?
Perhaps those lovely yellow skies we get in the winter?
One day we will look back and wonder how the hell we thought it was reasonable to walk down a street full of devices pumping combustion exhaust into the air.
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Improving air quality is vital. But you discount the value of ICEs a great deal in this statement.
Perhaps you forget how lovely it must have been to work in a field beside the methane emissions of an ox to get your food before you had rocks, liquids and gases to burn to help you do that work, provide heat, and even open the possibility of transversing great distances to do a job that is not necessarily manual labour.
Pretty sure it was only 5 or 6 generations ago that my ancestors were living in sod buildings in Saskatchewan working their land for food. Jesus that must have been a difficult and short life.
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Originally Posted by Azure
I think the point is that electric is only one way to power a vehicle. We don't now what the future will hold but there is a possibility that other options will become available down the road.
Solar is cheap and growing like crazy, but if there is a huge breakthrough in nuclear fission, solar will die a painful death.
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Azure read me properly, I meant from a technical perspective, there is no reason an automated car also has to be 100% EV. Y'all already know that I'm working to make that fission breakthrough a real option. We have some exciting news to announce soon on that front.