Is this making anyone else nervous?

[rob love]

As to no more sales of new gas or diesel powered vehicles, I guess it is going to depend on the levels of technology that gets achieved by then. I have to say that 6 or 8 years ago, when Canada started banning most incandescent bulbs and were making us go to LED, I hated it, and stocked up somewhat on incandescent bulbs. Now I have actively sought to remove the incandescent and florescent lights from my house and workshop as they are inefficient and I get much stronger light from the LEDs, and don't burn my arm when using them in trouble lights. And they light up at -30, which the fluorescent lights don't do very well.



They have a long way to go on the electric vehicles before they will have an acceptable range here in the rural prairies. On top of longer distances to the next town, we have to use a portion of the energy towards heating the vehicle in the winter.



As to our vehicles, yes, it is going to get tough to operate them. They may well all be sitting in museums or as monuments by some point. But it won't be at the stroke of midnight on the first day of 2040. There will still be plenty of people driving their carbon sucking cars and trucks for a few years after that point. Who knows, maybe we will be installing electric conversion kits into our CMPs. Just the savings from the no longer leaking oil out of the chevs would likely save the planet.



As to the ethanol, there is no benefit to using the stuff now, in the past, nor in the future. It is renewable, but if we are going to wean off of petroleum, then there is still plenty of that to go around for a long long time yet. Then again, we could be brewing ethanol after 2040 to keep our vehicles going.

[Mike K]

There are political limitations to the uptake of EV's

https://www.reuters.com/business/aut...ts-2021-07-19/

[maple_leaf_eh]

I heard that too.

Being told I have to change and being offered a suitable alternative are two different things.

[Harry Moon]

...or at least enough people to steer away from the rocks.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

There is this option. It may be the solution that finally gets Fords to start when you want them to.

h t t p s://news.yahoo.com/goal-convert-classical-cars-electric-141415215.html

CBS News Videos
The goal to convert classical cars into electric cars
Sat, November 13, 2021, 9:14 AM
While some drivers are ready to go electric, they still want to hang on to their classic cars. That's where one mechanic in London is ready to help and bring classical cars into the 21st century. Ian Lee has the story.

[maple_leaf_eh]

I had about 12 minutes of Youtube this morning of an Ariel Atom (?) doing the fastest lap of that day's cars at Nurburingen. An F1 car with no body and all horsepower.

It is hard to imagine a less necessary activity than driving a road course really really fast, except to remember that these tiny automotive shops come up with the most incredible engineering advances. Maybe someone will design a pair of fuel cells or batteries that will replace the side sponson fuel tanks on a Sherman and an engine powerful enough to get an M4 up and moving. Until that time, I respectfully want to preserve my historic military vehicles as well as possible as examples of, oh look at that trick.

[rob love]

The problem with putting electric motors to replace a Ford flathead is that the Ford's are so quiet with the flathead, you will certainly notice the loud noise of the electric motor. Not sure the electric motors will be as smooth either.



The CMP suspensions will certainly have no problem holding all the batteries necessary for electric.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

So Canada and our stoopendously magnificent Liberal government has upped the date for conversion to electric vehicles to 2035. It follows that if 100% of vehicles are electric you won't have a gas station on every corner from which you can buy gasoline to power your antique or classic gas-engined baby. And even if there remains a niche market to distill gas it most surely will be engine wrecking ethanol blend at about $50 bucks per litre (plus carbon tax).

Follow up question is what happens to all those antique restored vehicles that you can't get or afford gas for. I expect without the ability to drive them most owners will have little incentive to keep them. Museums may take a few but the rest will become expensive garage fillers.

h t t p s://www.cbc.ca/news/science/electric-vehicle-charging-stations-1.6293915

Canada is mandating EV sales — 50 per cent of new cars sold in 2030 must be emissions-free, growing to 100 per cent in 2035 — but nobody is taking the lead to make sure people know what that means in terms of how much electricity, or how many charging stations, will be needed, said Kingston.

[Lynn Eades]

Yes Bruce, I worry about it, but I take solace from the assumption that I will have turned into a frog, and croaked by then. (or can't climb into a vehicle)
Its all a knee jerk reaction involving a new religion. There are 200 active volcanos around the planet. The current Icelandic one spewed out more in 4 days than mankind is responsible for, since the industial revolution. Mount Pinatubo in Indonesia (or the Philipines?) erupted for a year (1991) and threw up far more than mankind is responsible for since we first descended from the trees.
Check out Bjorn Lomborg. He runs big international think tanks. Climate change doesn't make it into his list of the first 30 world problems.
A far bigger problem is pollution (plastic) (this is where oil companies will live as we need less fuel)
In my experience Governments hardly ever get anything right. This is about taxing middle class people to hell while the few get even richer. (higher power, gas, heating, and transport costs)
The freedom that our grandfathers fought and died for is being lost to the socialist (read "communist") states, that we live in.
My govmint bought an E.V. for use in a remote environment. They also bought a diesel generator to charge it!. This is an example of what govmints do.
Note: my post does mention "tanks", so it's o.k.