Are combustion engines dying or will they survive the electric revolution?

My shop's been open 22 years and we've invested in all the fancy EV diagnostic equipment, but guess what? Still fixing carburetors and timing belts 95% of the time. Headlines vs reality wildly different

Drove cross country in EV last summer. Supercharger network impressive on major routes but go rural and anxiety hits hard. Gas cars ain't dying until charging becomes truly ubiquitous

everyone sleeping on synthetic fuels fr. Companies dumping serious money into carbon-neutral options that work with existing engines without modification

y'all realize most countries barely have consistent electricity for homes, let alone car charging networks? Combustion engines staying dominant globally even if rich nations go electric

Battery tech hitting walls already. Current chemistry approaching theoretical limits while promised breakthroughs remain eternally "coming soon"

Spent 15 years building my collection of 60s muscle cars. Electric has its place but nothing replaces the rumble of a V8. Enthusiast market keeping engines alive forever

Converting entire transportation sector to electric would melt our current grid. Literally need 4x capacity. Timeline impossible without trillion dollar infrastructure overhaul

amazing how fast preferences change when wallets get hit. $7/gallon gas will convert more people than any environmental campaign ever could

Nobody talking about boats, planes, heavy construction equipment where electric simply can't match energy density needs. Massive sectors remaining combustion

imagine spending 60k restoring your muscle car just to gut it and stuff batteries inside like some frankenstein experiment 💀 "yEaH bUt iT's StILL a ClAsSiC" nah bro you just created the world's most expensive george foreman grill with wheels lmaooo

Dealerships secretly panicking about EVs. Entire profit structure built around oil changes and maintenance that electric cars barely need

studied transportation transitions for grad school thesis. Average tech replacement cycle historically takes 40+ years minimum. Both will coexist through 2060s minimum

Arguing about timeline pointless when carbon budget depleted by 2035 regardless of what we drive. Rearranging deck chairs on titanic at this point

Last generation of manual transmission sports cars already becoming impossible to find. Grabbing my naturally aspirated stick shift before they extinct

Ran numbers on our delivery fleet conversion last quarter. Each electric van saving us nearly $700/month vs diesel. Pure business decision, nothing to do with environment

Y'all clearly live in cities. try keeping EV charged during winter power outages when nearest service center 150 miles away. Gas provides independence

Everybody freaking out bout engine extinction while my uncle still downloading mp3s on limewire and thinks the cloud means actual weather fr fr 😭 Combustion and electric gonna coexist longer than that folder of unfinished downloads on ur desktop 💀💀