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Garrick Clark
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« on: July 07, 2021, 12:43:13 pm »

With electric cars and fuel  starting to go out the window how long will engine building/tuning last.
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« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2021, 13:47:26 pm »

forever hopefully.
10 years time well be swapping in tesla motors - either that or home brewing fuel :-)
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baz
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« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2021, 14:17:00 pm »

Guess it will depend on what taxes they impose on us and whether we can afford to pay them.
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leec
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« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2021, 14:38:17 pm »

Before we all start worrying, I have to say I can’t see the infrastructure to support a massive population shift to electric vehicles happening any time soon. The government benefit hugely from the car industry/scene from taxes, I can’t see they would just turn their back on that and destroy jobs/livelihoods
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baz
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« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2021, 15:40:03 pm »

Not everyone will make the switch, those who don't or can't afford to can walk or use public transport, along with working from home etc there won't be a need for infrastructure to support an electric vehicle to replace every ice vehicle currently in use.
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Garrick Clark
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« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2021, 20:43:47 pm »

Won't the prices of non converted classics drop like a stone. I myself won't be paying for a conversion as its too expensive, my little girl will need the money more than I need a converted beetle.
So to keep this hobby alive I believe the conversion price needs to be the price of a modest big vw motor. Maybe in 10 years the prices to go electric will be in the 5 grand range
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Brian Rogers
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« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2021, 00:53:24 am »

Just to buy a wreck is $5-15k. The kits out there start at $10k
I won’t denigh that I’m looking into it.
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Martin S.
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« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2021, 20:42:29 pm »

Both will keep going quite likely. Any kind of environmental penalty on carbon will be rolled into the price of fuel. Just like we have both electric and gas remote control models, gas and electric stoves, etc., they will co-exists for a long time.
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« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2021, 08:55:18 am »

I do no more than 8k kilometers per year with my old Volkwagens, I don't care too much if the fuel price doubles. That's just little money compared to the overall costs of the hobby.

Nevertheless I could imagine a nice electric conversion for my earlybay bus in one day the future if it really becomes necessary. We have designed a very nice split window bus  conversion in my company one year ago and it drives awesome.




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