"ice car engines peaked?" likely wrong
there is no charging infrastructur, and no way to retrofit into housing on a mass scale that will deal with the threat of a whole apartment building
parking garage going up in flames, resulting in mass casualties.
So until there are non flamable solid state batteries at the right price point, electrificationof the transport grid will stall, while demand for mobility will continue to increase, and ICE cars may very well keep or gain market share still.
no argument, let me expand slightly.
gasoline is exceptionaly flamable, but (and crusialy) is known, and almost never self ignites.
the "electrolight" in lithium batteries is in fact
a liquid hydrocarbon that would run an ICE engine.
this fact coupled with the very real issue of lithium batteries, self shorting, and then experiencing thermal runaway, causing the exceptionaly flamable electrolight to burn in.an inextinguasishable, and re igniting fashion, is new.
And new is hard to evaluate, as building code,insurance, product standard, and end user perspective.
Insurers will just balk, and say no, building and fire code people are trepedatios.
We need true solid state, non flamible batteries, and THEN, we can just get on.with a general electrification of everything........but should there be a "HINDENBURG" level event.....then watch out for extream push back, is what I am getting at!
