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Originally Posted by Boreal
What is easier to refuel? Electric or combustible fuels?
What has less maintenance? Electric or combustible fuels?
What is safer traveling down the road? A tank full of combustible fuel or a compact battery with chemical used to store electricity entombed within it?
This is nothing like shifting from coal to gas and thinking you can optimize the power grid..
Electric cars recapture energy lost in braking and have the ability to trickle charge in a variety of ways, all of these incorporate various levels of the computational science used in automation in ways that are not possible with combustible fuels.
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Liquid fuels are much faster to refuel. Electricity can be done in your parking stall. But TAAS vehicles would presumably have very high utilization.
Electric has less maintenance. I think safety is probably a wash - fuel tank explosions are not an issue.
Braking recapture is just improved energy efficiency. It doesn't have anything to do with driverless. It will improve the economics of single passenger owned vehicles exactly the same as uber-robotaxi. The computational power used to trickle charge a battery is a miniscule fraction of that needed for full self driving. It doesn't even make a dent, so it isn't relevant.
I think battery electric vehicles will take over, and my next sedan purchase will probably be electric. But if someone actually had self driving technology you could easily put it in an ICE vehicle.