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I think it's still super premature to assume society will all just shift to EVs, considering the advances being made in zero emissions synthetic fuels, and the
by auiya 7y ago
I think it's still super premature to assume society will all just shift to EVs, considering the advances being made in zero emissions synthetic fuels, and the utter stagnation in advances for battery tech. Even Porsche who just released an amazing EV to much fanfare is investing heavily in this research, and should it be properly industrialized, it has potential to be highly disruptive to the EV market. All the infrastructure is already there, and altering an existing ICE to run on 100 octane-equivalent synthetic fuel is trivial. If you think big oil is just going to sit idly by and watch the entire transportation industry abandon them, you'd have to be quite naive.
- auiya 7y agoEVs are by no means a panacea, and synthetic fuels are an awesome maturing tech that can go a great deal further to reduce our green house gas emissions, while not requiring an entirely new supply chain infrastructure be built to accommodate. Even Bill Gates has thrown lots of money into Carbon Engineering in Canada to further develop synthetic, carbon neutral fuels. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15355097/audi-makes-synthetic-gasoline-using-zero-petroleum/ https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15355097/audi-makes-synth... https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/tech/synfuel-synthetic-fuel-for-cars-and-how-it-works/ https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/tech/synfuel-syntheti...
- thegabriele 7y agoWhere i can find something about your statement "altering an existing ICE to run on 100 octane-equivalent synthetic fuel is trivial"? Also, is it fully true that the infrastructure is already here (ie, a gasoline pump could be converted to a synthetic one) ?