Seven Reasons Why The Internal Combustion Engine Is A Dead Man Walking [View all]

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The age of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is over. Electric cars are the future. The transition has just begun, but the move from ICE vehicles to Electric will happen sooner and more quickly than most people suspect.

What are the factors that lead me to say this with such confidence?

1 China says so!

China is now the world's largest car market (of the 86m cars sold in 2017, 30% (25.8m) were sold in China, compared to 20% (17.2m) in the US, and 18% (15.6m) in the EU).
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2 Battery Costs are falling
The main cost of an electric vehicle is the cost of the battery. These price of these batteries is falling significantly.

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3 Battery capacity is increasing
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4 Electric car batteries have a very long life

Contrary to what many believe, the batteries in electric vehicles don't degrade over time (or over miles/kilometers driven either).


This is a graph of the battery capacity of Tesla Model S/X vehicles, and it shows that after driving 270,000km (roughly 168,000 miles), the batteries still had 91% of their original capacity. - Forbes