I don’t know what you define as the “future”. I can imagine a point, perhaps 25 years from now, when you will not be able to purchase a new gas vehicle. That doesn’t mean the gas vehicles will not still be around. The Government will financially incent you to move in the direction they want you to go. Gas might become very expensive and harder to find.
Electricity from the grid, regardless of how it is made, is cleaner than burning gas. Also, electric cars use less total energy than gas cars. EVs typically use about 1/3 the energy per mile as gas cars. They take more energy to manufacture but recoup the energy difference quickly - some estimates put it as after 5000 miles.
Buy one or don’t buy one. Tilt against windmills or don’t tilt against windmills. The Government subsidizes all sorts of things in an attempt to get you to do what they want. They wanted you to get a vaccine so they paid for it. They wanted you to buy a house so they made mortgage interest tax deductible. They want you to invest long term in businesses so they tax the first 80K of long term capital gains at 0%.
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Originally Posted by Northerner52
The politicians will force you to buy electric in the future even thought the grid still makes dirty electricity. We will need charging parking lots the size of Walmarts to charge cars as many do not have garages and 220 volts chargers at home.
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