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I don’t like those developments. I’m living in Kazakhstan which is huge and cold in winter. People are poor and average car age is 20 years (plenty of cars with

I don’t like those developments. I’m living in Kazakhstan which is huge and cold in winter. People are poor and average car age is 20 years (plenty of cars with 30+ age). Everything is just opposed to electric cars use-cases. And of course we’re too small to be able to manufacture our own engines.

diebeforei485 6y ago
They will still be produced for many years to come. Combustion engines are basically at the peak of their efficiency at this point, they are heavily dependent on computers and there is not much gain in developing it further.
- account4mypc 6y ago
  > there is not much gain in developing it further i think there's still cool developments e.g. https://www.freevalve.com https://www.freevalve.com
cbmuser 6y ago
Don’t worry, they‘re not going to stop making and selling cars with combustion engines in the foreseeable future for the reasons you mentioned. This whole electric car hype exists in wealthy urban bubbles only and only because they are heavily subsidized. These cars are still not competitive in the market after all these years and they are completely useless in cold or rural regions.
- 29083011397778 6y ago
  > only because they are heavily subsidized I mean, you're right - electric vehicles are heavily subsidized. But it's not like it's a one way street where ICE cars have no (indirect, in this case) subsidies. The petro industry has its own share of funding and tax breaks, ranging from greenwashing and public imaging [0] to regular old tax breaks [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Energy_Centre#Funding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Energy_Centre#Funding [1] https://kimsiever.ca/2020/10/20/alberta-oil-gas-firms-get-3-year-tax-break-on-new-wells-and-pipelines/ https://kimsiever.ca/2020/10/20/alberta-oil-gas-firms-get-3-...
sbierwagen 6y ago
I'm an American software developer who lives near the headquarters of Microsoft. My car is 15 years old. Cars just last a hell of a lot longer than they used to. Even if every Western manufacturer stopped making petrol cars, you could still buy them from Russia or China. And everyone stopped making cars, well, it's not impossible to have a domestic auto industry. After all, Detroit started from nothing. If you didn't care at all about emissions or fuel economy, a large-displacement 2-stroke engine wouldn't be hard to make. Heck, in the future, it might be harder to get hydrocarbon fuels (either synthetic or ultradeep drilling, which really does require exotic technologies) than it would be to make engines.

diebeforei485 6y ago

They will still be produced for many years to come. Combustion engines are basically at the peak of their efficiency at this point, they are heavily dependent on computers and there is not much gain in developing it further.

account4mypc 6y ago
> there is not much gain in developing it further i think there's still cool developments e.g. https://www.freevalve.com https://www.freevalve.com

cbmuser 6y ago

Don’t worry, they‘re not going to stop making and selling cars with combustion engines in the foreseeable future for the reasons you mentioned. This whole electric car hype exists in wealthy urban bubbles only and only because they are heavily subsidized. These cars are still not competitive in the market after all these years and they are completely useless in cold or rural regions.

29083011397778 6y ago
> only because they are heavily subsidized I mean, you're right - electric vehicles are heavily subsidized. But it's not like it's a one way street where ICE cars have no (indirect, in this case) subsidies. The petro industry has its own share of funding and tax breaks, ranging from greenwashing and public imaging [0] to regular old tax breaks [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Energy_Centre#Funding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Energy_Centre#Funding [1] https://kimsiever.ca/2020/10/20/alberta-oil-gas-firms-get-3-year-tax-break-on-new-wells-and-pipelines/ https://kimsiever.ca/2020/10/20/alberta-oil-gas-firms-get-3-...

sbierwagen 6y ago

I'm an American software developer who lives near the headquarters of Microsoft. My car is 15 years old. Cars just last a hell of a lot longer than they used to. Even if every Western manufacturer stopped making petrol cars, you could still buy them from Russia or China. And everyone stopped making cars, well, it's not impossible to have a domestic auto industry. After all, Detroit started from nothing. If you didn't care at all about emissions or fuel economy, a large-displacement 2-stroke engine wouldn't be hard to make. Heck, in the future, it might be harder to get hydrocarbon fuels (either synthetic or ultradeep drilling, which really does require exotic technologies) than it would be to make engines.