For gearheads , the news is direful : Young people are n’t purchase cars , they ’re buying smart headphone . Detroit is belly-up . Electric car are pussyfoot into the market share one silent pct point at a prison term . You better keep that vintage Chevy El Camino with the large - block locomotive engine hidden under a tarp in the service department before the fire job police attempt to pry it from your frigid , stagnant fingers , correct ? I think , they already killed the Humvee . What ’s next ? Twelve - piston chamber Lamborghinis ? These are sad day .
But are they really ? If history is any lesson ( and it is ) , we ’re plausibly headed back to the good ol' day of the automobile . In the former 1900s vehicular propulsion was a free - for - all , with gasoline- , electric- and steam - powered cars all vying to be the most pop . Gasoline - power carswent farther and quicker ; galvanizing - powered cars were light and touted as being secure for peeress drivers ; and steam cars , well , they had a readily available fuel source . In the big city like New York City and Boston , the market was split roughly into third gear , depending on what people fancied and how they elected to use their new motorcar .
The same will in all probability be true in the close - ish future . The truth is , no one is start to take your El Camino by from you – but even you have to admit that it ’s a flatulency hog . Collectors and car partizan will likely halt commuting in their gas - powered toys and use them on weekends rather . After all , no one wants to pay off more for fuel just to convert back and forth to work than they make in a day . People will in all probability take neckcloth of their vehicle usage and then bribe and drive accordingly . A good deal of mass will realize their chain anxiety is nothing more than a apparition – though not a Rolls - Royce Phantom , despite a late experimentation to electrify that luxury animal . So yeah , there ’ll by all odds be more all - galvanizing cars on the streets – but not every automobile . At least , not until we get our nuclear - powered flying cars . Then all stakes are off .
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I used to work for a magazine that get across vintage sports and muscle car – Ferraris , Corvettes , Alfa Romeos , Cisitalias , Superbirds – the whole bit . The scare in the eyes of the bozo ( and they were almost all guys ) who know these cars at the reference of a hybrid drivetrain , let alone an all - electric fomite , was a heap like a Equus caballus in a barn fire . If they did n’t panic , they laughed . These are the guys I think of when I ponder the futurity of electric gondola . As all - electric vehicles get more stylish and more playfulness , these guy cable are depart to clear that the only way they can give to fire up the old Ford Fairlane for a club meet on Saturday is to drive an EV to work the rest of the week . You do n’t have to be a Birkenstock - wearing tree - hugger or futuristic grind to interpret the practicality of a weekday EV that justifies one ’s weekend time of origin car racing habit . That is , if one has such a habit .
