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Originally Posted by BADDASSC6
I think end game will be a hybrid system like seven seven one. Has turbine powered generator with direct drive electric motors. I also think there will be a large fully electric plug insector as solar power gains popularity. I don't believe that fossil fuels will ever go away.
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Certainly I don't think liquid chemical energy is going anywhere anytime soon. Too useful in too many ways.
HOWEVER, within mass infrastructure, those subsystems of turbine/generator per vehicle are redundant IF you have something like an inductive grid. So in the cases of a dense metropolis and urban cars, they could be very simple direct drive with only a very small energy buffer battery and pick up power direct from a grid in the road itself. No tanks, turbine, generator. Throw in some advancing materials science that will make it possible to be exceptionally light and the power output needed for useful transport is considerably lower too. Of course, autonomous navigation. Suspension will be full electromagnetic ride control. This is not imagination, it's ALL already been reduced to practice. It's a matter of scale implementation. I think we'll see it on a large scales in big urban areas in 30-50 years. That would be my guess anyway.