1: yes your can make money while still charging a fraction of the current going rate of an uber or similar to bus/train travel. The car I am looking at has a range of 600km. In 10, 20 years time it will be double that or more. Making 5 to 10km trips at $5 to $10 a pop, it adds up.
2: Solar: In Qld there is no charge to feed into grid. We get paid. The way to fix it is to cap the amount that households can pump back in. I’m not sure but I think you only get charged once you go over a certain threshold right? A smart car could help offset this by charging and using power to avoid this charge.
3: phone reference. Yes we still have phones but the tech has shifted our use of them. We now use them far more extensively than the landline was capable of. Cars will be the same. Its the 2nd most expensive purchase most of us will ever make. Why not use it to its full extent? You can do with it what you want but many others will take advantage of advantages it offers.
Another is to use it as an energy storage battery. Charge during the day under solar then power the house at night. Cutting your power bill effectively to zero. You have a mobile phone right? Do you refuse to use it for anything other than making calls? - I made this post on my phone.
phones cost less now than they did. Not sure how old you are but you had a monthly access fee to have the line connected then you had to pay for every call on top of that. From memory my last monthly connection fee was around $11 or $12 per month then calls on top. My current mobile plan is unlimited calls and texts for less than $15 per month. Plus I get data included.
Edit: I just checked Telstra landline cost. $50 a month yikes! More than 3 times what I pay for my mobile for a product that is useless to me for half the day when I’m not home and 90% of the time I actually need to use it.
4: Cars have always been a depreciating asset. Why not try to offset the cost of ownership? This will actually reduce our need for as many vehicles on the road. The car will become a multi-use piece of equipment.
I wouldn’t be holding my breath or banking on fuel prices to drop. The government will just tax it harder if that were to happen. They won’t let ICE cars become more desirable than EVs.
Thirty years or so ago, a study concluded that traffic in Bangkok was slower than it was 100 years before that, in the days of water buffaloes and carts, due to the traffic jams. Another study, IIRC, done by the university of Queensland estimated that the traffic jams in Bangkok cost the Thai economy a billion and a half dollars a year. All that fuel going up in smoke… slowly, very slowly…
They wont need too. Give it 10 years and most cars made will be electric it will be cheaper to buy and fuel them.
So why would you not choose an electric car? Thats what it will
come too.
The other thing around autonomous cars. Happening at the same time but really seperate from drivetrain is that once full automation is complete and a driver isnt required?
Hiring cars will become much much cheaper and of course incredibly convenient. In 30 years probably the only cars on the road in the city
Some certainly do. Its true that most cars look similar though. Its the subtle things that can make a car look good in my eyes vs ugly.
I like the look of the Tavascan.You are right it looks like a hundred other cars but I think it looks nicer than most of those. Certainly in the price point it will come in at. I also think a lot of the early EVs look odd/ugly. It might be because I am more familiar with the way ICE cars look.
Cupra have some very nice design touches e.g. the VZx has copper details rather than chrome and has excellent leatherwork. On the other hand their overeliance on the big touchscreen turned me right off the brand.
SUVs are great. They’re comfortable and very practical. The greatest advantages are that they have more room inside. They’re easier to get into and out of, and you sit higher and have a better view of the road than in a sedan. An SUV is higher than a sedan, which is why it has those advantages, but the footprint is no bigger.
biggest issue with self driving cars is rubbish and cleaning.
whose going to stop some slob spilling his coke or pizza over the seat. Then are you going to hop in the next one?
Also plus vandalism which has already been discussed.
how many bikes/ scooters are thrown in the river etc.
