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We have a century plus of developing resource extraction and refueling infrastructure for ICE transportation. It seems unreasonable to expect electric infrastr
by techdmn 4y ago
We have a century plus of developing resource extraction and refueling infrastructure for ICE transportation. It seems unreasonable to expect electric infrastructure overnight. New charging stations are being built all the time. Renewable energy infrastructure is being built all over the world.
Fossil fuels have a lot of positives, if they didn't, we never would have developed them. The infrastructure we've built out makes it easy to continue using them, not to mention the political inertia of disrupting big players. However, fossil fuels also have major downsides: local environmental impact, global environmental impact, geopolitics, etc.
I'm a car guy, even a Toyota fan. There's an '87 Supra in my garage right now. Fossil fuels had a good run, but it's time to move on, hopefully in time to maintain a habitable planet. I think sooner than we expect, we'll look at ICE vehicles the same way we look at coal powered steam locomotives: The tech is neat, some people still love them, there's a community of hobbyists, even if it's in miniatures. But as transportation, everyone knows they are horribly slow, inefficient, noisy, dirty and smelly, and nobody would dream of taking one to work every day.
I wish Toyota would quit spreading FUD, and instead help us move to a cleaner future.