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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
That is exactly what we should expect to see for the next 20-30 years. We’re not gonna just wake up in 2035 and all the ICE vehicles are gone. Thing is, most ICE vehicles that will be left will have some form of electric assist. Over time, there will be more BEV than anything else. That’s probably in the 2040-ish timeframe, when most of us on this site today will be racing wheelchairs in some retirement up. That or looking up at the lawn.
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If this 2035 end of ICE production stays on track, the closer we get to 2035 the fewer and fewer ICE choices there will be. I can't imagine having several remaining and popular(?) ICE models just come to a screeching halt in 2035 in favor of EVs.
Probably right now are the salad days for one or the other. Either ICE will taper off to nothing over the next few years, or perhaps some may stay longer than 2035.
If the powers that be make ICE and gasoline overly burdensome and arbitrarily impossible to own and use as we near 2035, then there may be some serious pushback against the obvious ploy to keep up the facade that we have a choice of some kind.