Sadly It Likely Seems That The Climate Change Extremists Will Eventually Kill The Wonderful Internal Combustion Engine (economic, elect)

[TheGoodTheBadTheUgly]

What Realistically Can Replace The Internal Combustion Engine. Will it be Battery or Hydrogen Fuel Cells.

My money is on Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Though it will be a very sad day to see the gas internal combustion engine disappear.

[SkyDog77]

Policy can only push things so far. Economics rule the day. I have no emotional attachment to one motor over another.

What data or studies do you have to suggest HFCs over battery?

[DRob4JC]

Government is by the people in America. If people let them have their way, it's not the extremists fault.

[greywar]

My electric vehicle is the best vehicle I’ve ever owned. It’s not policy that’s driving this in the end. It’s technology.

[TheGoodTheBadTheUgly]

Sadly It Likely Seems That The Horseless Extremists Will Eventually Kill The Wonderful Horse and Buggy

Actually the climate change lunatics would love all of us riding horse and buggy!

[Lekrii]

it's always great to be nostalgic about certain technologies, but reality is we only get one planet. Regardless of if its a combustion engine, solar panels, etc., we need to take care of the Earth. If that means the traditional engine goes away, that's not a bad thing.

[Freak80]

As long as we can efficiently move stuff from point A to point B, who cares what motor we use?

[greywar]

Originally Posted by TheGoodTheBadTheUgly

Actually the climate change lunatics would love all of us riding horse and buggy!

Uh huh. Sooo....high tech electric vehicles are just a stop gap until we go to horse and buggies. Got it.

Any more nonsense?

[sholomar]

What's so wonderful about internal combustion? It's just a way to get from point A to B. If you look back on the history of our species nothing really stays the same forever. Tech advances. We can't keep belching out CO2 from exhausts forever.

Plus both fuel cells and batteries will likely at their maturity have more torque with less moving parts. Yeah the older folks will be nostalgic towards their youthful tech but such is life.

[bawac34618]

Originally Posted by TheGoodTheBadTheUgly

What Realistically Can Replace The Internal Combustion Engine. Will it be Battery or Hydrogen Fuel Cells.

My money is on Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Though it will be a very sad day to see the gas internal combustion engine disappear.

Why does this bother Republicans so much? The personal automobile replaced the horse and buggy and the 18-wheeler replaced many of the old freight trains. Airliners replaced the passenger train. In some other countries, high-speed rail is replacing the airliner and it may here eventually as well.

I understand that Republicans have a very heavy nostalgia for the 1950s but things don't stay the same forever. Society evolves and technology evolves.