DOOM: Lambos

[AtW]

"Lamborghini plans to electrify entire range by 2024

Supercar maker to invest £1.3bn on building first hybrids and then all-electric model

Lamborghini has announced plans to produce only hybrid electric supercars by 2024, becoming the latest sports car producer to shift away from polluting internal combustion engines.

The Italian supercar company announced on Tuesday it was investing €1.5bn (£1.3bn) in hybrid and all-electric vehicles.

The brand, which is owned by Volkswagen, said its current models – Huracan and Aventador sports cars and Urus sport utility vehicles will be hybrids by 2024, and it would launch a new all-electric model by the end of the decade."


https://www.theguardian.com/business...brids-electric

[_V_]

What did you expect it was going to do? Keep making fossil fuel cars and then be banned from selling them in most of the developed world within the next 10 years?

Of course they are going electric. All car manufacturers will be 100% electric or out of business, simple choice.

[northernladuk]

Price of a full throated petrol engine Lambo will go through the roof in the next 15 to 20 years then. Better get one and store it in my Salford lockup quick.

[OwlHoot]

Yipee - Il'l be coining it in a few years with my half mile of deep railway cuttings, as they're an ideal location for a row of giant batteries

[LondonManc]

Ferrari have already got the SF90 Stradale. https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/.../sf90-stradale

Next up, apparently, the F171 is a V6 hybrid: https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/spy-sh...ari/hybrid-v6/

Hybrids are a good transition path, so long as you don't expect the figures claimed by the manufacturer.

[Paddy]

Yipee - Il'l be coining it in a few years with my half mile of deep railway cuttings, as they're an ideal location for a row of giant batteries

The life of a Petrol-Diesel car is about 12 to 20 years. Battery cars life is about 6 years. Most energy of the cars life is used in manufacturing. Battery cars will be an environmental disaster.

[_V_]

The life of a Petrol-Diesel car is about 12 to 20 years. Battery cars life is about 6 years. Most energy of the cars life is used in manufacturing. Battery cars will be an environmental disaster.

I think the only sensible approach is to ban ALL forms of transport, heating, food production and industrial output.

This is the only quick way to solve the Climate Crisis and existential threat to all living things.

[NigelJK]

The only approach that will actually work is to stop breeding more humans than die.

[Andy2]

The only approach that will actually work is to stop breeding more humans than die.

current population 7.8 billion
projected population at the end of the century 10.9 billion
doomed

[vetran]

The other problem is the rest of the worlds population mostly want the same sort of life we do.

The mainly vegetarian billions of Indians (other nationalities available) wearing and repairing natural cloth, reading books and riding bicycles want to eat Pork, buy throwaway fashion, have a TV and and a car like us.