What are the odds/chances Acura makes a 2-door coupe next year for the Integra?

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It’s a topic that’s been rehashed over and over. You can have many charging stations but it all falls back to power generation and transmission. We won’t magically generate enough electricity to sustain a switchover from combustion engines to EV. I work in the hydroelectric industry and all renewables are meant as a supplement to abiotic fuels, not a replacement.

Secondly, for a certain demographic EV’s could make sense. But the people who rent, shares housing, don’t have their own garage and park on the street, EV’s don’t make a lot of sense. It remains for a class of people who own their house.

Toyota the #1 automaker has boldly double downed:

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/202...ce-people-to-buy-evs-n4925794#google_vignette

https://fortune.com/asia/2024/01/24...ism-thirty-percent-battery-electric-cars/amp/

There’s a market for people who want EV’s. There will be other technologies. But ICE isn’t going away any time soon. Toyota and Honda aren’t going full electric but rather hybrid in the near term and exploring a combination of hydrogen ICE engines, solid state batteries, and fuel cells.

Of all of those, we will see those technologies integrated with gas engines



This is a drop in the bucket. This was nothing more than an extension replacement of E.O 13920 that doesn't address the root of the issue:
https://www.federalregister.gov/doc.../securing-the-united-states-bulk-power-system
https://www.power-grid.com/policy-r...-the-grid-getting-too-smart-for-its-own-good/
1.5T Infrastructure Plan (canned)
https://www.constructiondive.com/ne...n-could-generate-26m-construction-job/524470/

The cost to upgrade and expand the US transmission grid is astronomically higher. Just reducing congestion alone is $20B as a temporary measure:
https://gridstrategiesllc.com/wp-co...ission-Congestion-Costs-in-the-U.S.-RTOs1.pdf

Federal Transmission Grid Study
https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/transmission-grid.pdf
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81662.pdf
https://www.spglobal.com/commodityi...s-seen-outpacing-electricity-production-costs

These projects would costs us trillions of dollars and decades to complete. We have neither the money nor the time to make this happen any time soon.

TLDR: Energy independence -> generate our own revenue to rebuild and bolster our critical infrastructure power grid the right way. NOT artificially bring up the demand for electricity that our grid cannot support or sustain. This only passes the cost of both electricity and natural resources to consumers and taxpayers

I don't remember your point, but if it's ICEs aren't going away then literally nobody is saying they are.

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I love your vision but, America.

I just can't see it, no more than I can see an America with less guns. Or free healthcare. It's too "socialist" a concept for the masses to buy in. In this multiverse timeline, at least.

I mean, it's already happening. Tesla Model 3's have replaced the Camry in Southern California. I'm not saying Joe Blow from rural Iowa's suppose to take an EV, I'm not, but significant numbers in metro populations where people aren't taking 100+ mile trips will being opting in including myself in the future, Tesla or not. For the 10th time as well, ICEs are staying as well nor are EVs "taking over the world." These discussions always go too far in one way or another. It's perfectly acceptable to believe EVs and ICEs will coexist.

My personal goal is to one day get solar panals, pay 0 on electricity while charging an EV. I plan to have a fun car, but use an EV for the daily commute. Yes, I'd love to get a Lexus IS-F and daily that instead while hearing the purr of the v8 every morning, but I can't seriously swallow the cost of gas. Before that though, I'd love to daily the ITS to get a bit of both.