When the very first cars were built, only the rich could afford it, but now a large part of the population (in developed countries) has one or more.
What do you think will be such an evolution in the future?
When the very first cars were built, only the rich could afford it, but now a large part of the population (in developed countries) has one or more.
What do you think will be such an evolution in the future?
Afaik there are such fuels, but are much more expensive. From what I read it could shift and rich will be able to ride vehicless with combustion engines using eco fuel, while us plebs will drive electric
It costs about £1.80 per litre to make your own bio diesel in the uk at the moment using supermarket vegetable oil (or even less if you bulk buy) so I don’t see eco fuels being so expensive that it’s unaffordable to anyone who can already afford a car.
Yeah but you’re not paying excise duty on that vegetable oil, which you are supposed to do if you’re using it to fuel your car. To give you an idea of the price impact, diesel costs about €1.9 per liter where I live, and heating oil which is essentially the same thing only costs €0.5 per liter. The only realy difference is how excise and taxes are calculated.
It also doesn’t take into account the effects of supply limitations and scarcity when scaling up. Put simply, there is simply not enough vegetable oil in the world to supply half of Europe’s cars driving on it. Scarcity will drive prices up, and it will drive a shift away from land that is currently used for food production towards using it to produce vegetable oil. I don’t think we should want that.
Not an expert, I just said what I heard. But how many people would be able to make fuel at home and be confident enough to pour it in their tank? I imagine there would also need to be some regulations on this.
Buy again - not an expert.
Honestly, I don’t even care if that’s the case. Cars are becoming more like living rooms on wheels and less engaging overall (less about driving and more about being driven), so I don’t even care what I drive when the time comes, so long as it isn’t a piece of garbage with a shoddily-built interior. Hell, I’d rather just not have a car at all at that point, but we don’t have the infrastructure here (in the US) for that.