Considering the RS is dead, it's safe to say no new car is its competitor. But yeah, this is the last generation of turbo-4 hot hatches. The mk8 Golf R, the upcoming Type R, and the next STI will be the last of their kind before electrification. There won't be a V8 Mustang or Camaro by 2030 either. Considering the insane demand for Mach-Es and Lightnings, Ford would probably convert to fully electric today if they had the battery and chip supply to produce enough of them.Most RS competitors will be electrical in the very near future if this is to be believed:
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Is it really 4 years? I would think it'd be closer to 15 years with the production/disposal of the batteries. Nothing solid to base that off - just a loosely informed guess.
California has many problems, however the only time when we've had persistent rolling blackouts was because of market manipulation by a now notorious company called Enron that doesn't exist anymore because some energy traders got really greedy
E85 is not better for the environment - it produces the same CO2 when burned and probably requires more resources to create. What I've heard is that for industries where electrification doesn't solve the problem, clean hydrogen is the solution - using solar or wind electricity to split water into O2 and H2. Hydrogen has less energy per volume so it requires modification to tanks, not only the engines that use it and I'm not sure if you can retrofit a gasoline engine to burn hydrogen.I've seen these questions many times before, but no one seems to have an answer. It seems like the governments (and car companies) are just blindly pushing this through, and hoping it'll all get sorted out in the end. I think their time frames are way too aggressive, and there should be some alternative to electric cars that is easier and quicker to roll out... at least until the infrastructure has time to catch up.
It would be easy for the governments (at least in the US) to push e-85 again. That should have been required on new cars, and new gas stations when it first came out. It seems like that whole thing stagnated years ago. The synthetic fuels seem like the next new variant of that... that can pump and burn the same. If cars were running a clean burning synth fuel (or maybe hydrogen), they'd be better than electric cars right now too... since not all power plants are exactly clean burning.
If you're in California, I'd suggest you get some solar panels, if you don't already have them
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Might even be longer. I know petrol is on its way out, but I'm really hoping hydrogen based fuel catches on.
Not to mention, what about all the people that street park. How would they charge their vehicles? Drag an extension cord across the street?I've seen these questions many times before, but no one seems to have an answer. It seems like the governments (and car companies) are just blindly pushing this through, and hoping it'll all get sorted out in the end. I think their time frames are way too aggressive, and there should be some alternative to electric cars that is easier and quicker to roll out... at least until the infrastructure has time to catch up.
It would be easy for the governments (at least in the US) to push e-85 again. That should have been required on new cars, and new gas stations when it first came out. It seems like that whole thing stagnated years ago. The synthetic fuels seem like the next new variant of that... that can pump and burn the same. If cars were running a clean burning synth fuel (or maybe hydrogen), they'd be better than electric cars right now too... since not all power plants are exactly clean burning.
If you're in California, I'd suggest you get some solar panels, if you don't already have them
Great question!
I can tell you the so called insane demand for those two is not a demand at all. The numbers for those are very small compared to the counterparts. Instance my local dealer took orders for 68 of them last month. Compare that to the several hundred orders for 5.0 f-150.
