Car enthusiasts of the world: Hold on tight for this one.
The head of Audi Sport customer racing, Chris Reinke, told Car Sales he foresees a future where
gasoline-powered performance vehicles will be relegated to weekends at the
racetrack or on rally courses. Gas-powered performance cars will appear nowhere
else.
Reinke compared the future of automobiles to sailboat
racing. People used to take goods across the ocean with sailboats, but now it's
all handled with container ships—people still sail, but only recreationally.
The man behind Audi Sport customer racing went on to say sailboats have
essentially turned into a leisure activity and that's what will happen with
gas-powered performance vehicles.
For day-to-day-driving people will ride in all-electric
autonomous vehicles, according to Reinke.
While this shift won't happen overnight, there's evidence to
support Reinke's prediction. The Dutch government started to look at banning gas- and diesel-powered vehicle (but not hybrids) sales by
2025 in 2016. Later in 2016 Germany looked at the same thing for 2030, and
in 2017 China started to join the movement. In 2018 a bill
called for a ban on internal combustion cars by 2040 in
California.
It's clear the future is electric. Porsche introduced
the all-electric 2020 Taycan sport sedan on Sept. 9, and
Volkswagen introduced the ID 3 hatchback at the 2019 Frankfurt
auto show. No segment is going untouched, as a slew of all-electric pickup
trucks are in development ranging from the sales-leading Ford F-150 to General
Motors and startups like Rivian and its R1S and Tesla.
Maybe the Goodwood Revival gathering will be one of the last
bastions of gas-powered cars.
by Joel Feder
http://www.boscheuropean.com
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