grettu wrote:I am afraid there is a politic agenda to push forward this kind of cars and competition.
So when electric cars were ignored it was due to a politic agenda, and now that electric development continue it´s also a politic agenda....
IMHO petrol companies killed electric development all they could, around 30-40 years wich is quite a lot, but today electric setups are simply too easy to use, so they coudn´t stop it anymore
It´s lithium batteries what changed the game, even when batteries still need a lot more development to be practical for any application, they´re at a point electric cars are useful for many applications (city, going to the job, school, supermarket, for scooters...) and that´s thanks to lithium batteries. There was electric cars 40 years back, but Pb batteries and Niquel batteries were simply too heavy and/or too little range to be useful. Lithium changed it all as it reduce weight to a half for same capacity. They are not valid for long trips yet but for daily use they´re great
That´s the reason electric cars are growing at a high rate lately, not any political agenda. And next generation batteries (LiS and LiO) will improve energy density so much more than electric vehicles will become standard. This means car manufacturers need to learn about electric setups because they´re the future, and not so distant future (10 years more or less). That´s the reason all of them have some electric car on their catalog, and also the reason FE exist even when current batteries are too heavy for racing. They need to develop this technology because it will be standard soon so any manufacturer ignoring EVs will become out of date soon
That´s the reason for FE, not any political agenda