[Martinjlm]

Seems to me that a lot of this thread has turned into “this random group of environmental extremists said <blah blah blah> and that is proof that they [whoever THEY are] are gonna ban our cars. That’s a huge stretch.

There is no doubt that people who are looking to forward an all electric car industry are listening to people who are on the environmental extremes. No arguments there. But expertise in environmental issues does not equate to expertise in automotive issues. Automotive decision makers do not exclusively listen to environmental extremists in making decisions and developing plans. They hear from a broad spectrum of environmental experts, measure the information and form their own opinions and make plans and decisions accordingly.

Because some guy attends Davos and comes away with an opinion that cars are bad or that we need to develop ways to keep cows from farting doesn’t mean that the CEOs and Boards of every major automaker will take that hook line and sinker and put all their money on EVs. The fact that many CEOs and Boards ARE moving fast toward EVs is an indication that they are listening to a broad spectrum of inputs on a number of issues and coming up with similar views of where the industry is headed. Not a big conspiracy. Simply similar understanding of a broad spectrum of inputs.

Prime example…about 10-15 years ago there was a bunch of noise that autonomous vehicles were gonna take over and people would be banned from driving. Those discussions were almost as fun as this thread. How’s that going? It’s been pretty much crickets for the past 3 - 5 years. Did all those “THEYs” just change their minds? Or did reality kick in? I vote reality kicked in.