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'Any Car with an Internal Combustion engine will be a Relic in 10 Years'

posted 11 years ago by tupolev-4
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My wife likes to watch this movie from time to time, and I watched it with her tonight. It was funny to hear them talk about "global warming" instead of climate change, and that bit about the cars, which according to the movie should have been mostly electric by 2005.

I also thought it was kind of funny to see Shephard make that speech about "Getting the Guns". (Meaning "Assault Weapons" and handguns). I said to myself, "Yea Sure, go ahead and try that one for the eighth time".

An assault weapon ban would have no effect on me, because fortunately, I only own "anti" assault weapons.

[–] CoffeeRules 10 years ago

Very naive comment for sure about the internal combustion engine. I don't think any realistic person in 1995 thought the ICE would be gone by 2005.

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[–] GoodbyePorkPieHat 9 years ago

My truck ['78 F250] was a relic when this movie came out, and it still runs.

So it goes.

[–] smoko 8 years ago

@tupolev-4 2016 update: the internal combustion engine is still here.

Even back then it was a stupid line - how can anything be a relic in 10 years?

[–] AndrewGS 8 years ago

Liberals seem to often believe both that it is inevitable that they will succeed and that it doesn't matter if they succeed-trying is good and worthy enough.

[–] fani (375) 3 years ago

ICE will be extinct within next 20 years, if not earlier.

Tesla has already been super successful and Elon Musk created and is the father of modern EV industry. Everyone else is scrambling to copy Elon and Tesla.

The moment someone introduces a $20k EV that can go 200 miles, it is game over for ICE. The initial ramp up will be over next 10-12 years and will tip 40% of cars on the road and last 8 years will make it go to 95%.

There will be 3%-5% holdouts + cars for movies and other reasons but if we can get EVs to 85% or 95%+ adoption then ICE is gone for all practical purposes. Gas stations will become EV stations then

[–] liscarkat (16592) 3 years ago

It was made before the phrase "global warming" became embarrassing because it really wasn't warming, so to keep the hysteria ball rolling the left switched to "climate change".

[–] huwdj (4562) 3 years ago

Later than predicted - and perhaps still too optimistic - but there seems to be serious thought that in another 10 years (so 2023) all new cars will be electric. I'm not sure things can scale up that quickly but I'll be happy to be proved wrong.