"fossil fuelled cars will disappear by 2025"

[European Central Bank]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/92592333/petrol-cars-will-vanish-in-8-years-says-us-report

the predicted timing is laughable however i think the guy will be eventually right a decade or two after that.

but the most interesting thing isn't the end of petrol and diesel, it's the end of car ownership.

i don't enjoy driving so the idea of renting something that'll drive itself to where i wanna go sounds great. i don't know how they'll ever address the legality and security vulnerabilities.

is it an idea you like or will you be sad if it happens?

[szpalata]

If it's indeed true then it's good news for all of us as we will have our healthy environment once again and begin to live naturally like we used to before these petrochemicals destroyed the ozone later and exposed us to direct sunlight.

[HEWRA]

I really doubt that will happen, 8 years is simply not enough for such a revolutionary change.
Companies that produce them will not agree with that, im sure it will not happen before 2040.

[sunkiller]

This is a joke. However it's inevitable that fossil fuels will run out, or at least become so insufficient that their price will skyrocket beyond what normal people can afford and that will happen in the coming two decades or so. Surprisingly little is being done to prepare some alternative and if this keeps up I'm afraid the golden age of prosperity we're living in will eventually end.

[BADecker]

... right. And we will have bases on the moon by the 1990s.

 

[pressureonme]

USA is the garbage of the fossil fuelled cars, do you know that? First, USA gotta take a step in this area.

[Sam7Sam]

Sooner or later it has to happen. I hope that this time will be thoroughly refined techniques for the use of alternative energy sources in automobiles. But oil is the only fuel, but also the main raw material for the chemical industry. How to replace it in this industry is the question.

[arhh037]

maybe in europe, but in the rest of the world they will keep selling petrol/gas/ethanol powered cars until atleast 2100 or beyond . The technology is here and is expensive, electric cars are expensive to make, hybrids are the exception because they use petrol. Until they dont lower the costs of batteries or find better alternatives than petrol we will keep burning gas until 2100 and beyond

[xebrox]

There are already some ways of producing artificial fossil fuels. There was this very promising method that involved special enzymes, which were found in the amazonian jungles and were responsible for decomposing the huge amounts of leaf mass that fall down from the trees. These enzymes could in theory be used to create artificial fossil fuel by sped up rotting of bio masses and such, and it was later even proven practically that this works. They were looking into ways of incorporating it into the industry, but I guess there's not much demand yet.

Still every such project progresses with baby steps, and the big governments at their best aren't too helpful.

[BADecker]

USA is the garbage of the fossil fuelled cars, do you know that? First, USA gotta take a step in this area.

Many farmers run their diesel fueled tractors on filtered sunflower oil, that they grow.

[gollygosh]

and they will need no drivers and we will also need no workers as the machines will do all the work and drive their machine freinds to the jobs that need doing

[criptobear]

ideally we will not need to move so much in the future but i would really like to live in a place with silent and sustainable built and fuelled with tesla juice cars

[Lieldoryn]

and they will need no drivers and we will also need no workers as the machines will do all the work and drive their machine freinds to the jobs that need doing

Human labor will always be in demand. Just might change the nature of the work. You will not themselves to do the work and follow up mechanisms. So now is already happening in many factories. All modern airplanes have autopilot, but the pilot's profession has not disappeared. Also, I think 8 years is too little for such global changes.

[ElBlaze]

The government and the military will have fossil fueled machines long after us civilians stop using them. I've already prepped a few barrels of gasoline in my basement as a long term investment for when gas prices go to the moon.

[TryAngle]

At some point, another technology will take over in car engines. It may be electric or something else, but someone will make it cheaper and cleaner.

[rajasumi3]

Well even in western countries it might happen that the fossil fuel cars may get eradicated by the year 2060,on the other hand in the developing countries it will take more than 80 years from now if there are electric companies set up very quickly otherwise it wont happen by that time also.

[Ultegra134]

I doubt it that it will happen anywhere around 2025, conventional car technologies such as CNG/Hydrogen/Electric cars (Especially Electric) still have a long way to go.More like 2040~ I'd say.

[ScriptYoYo]

This would be very good for the surrounding environment, but it seems to me it will not be so too fast or will be available only in certain cities through such a period of time.

[Nathan047]

In 8 years, if I look back and remember this, than I’m going to laugh just as much as I did when I first read it. I don’t think that gasoline is going to be replaced within 10 years, and perhaps not even in my lifetime.

Also, I never plan to get behind the wheel of a self driving car; I see that way to dangerous (at least for me where I live), and I think I’ll always stick to car ownership (I don’t like the idea of paying for a vehicle that somebody else owns).

I think this is one of those “flying cars” predictions we got a couple decades ago.

[cybersofts]

I don't think so because electric cars are still expensive and there's no flying cars to resolve that either