When do you expect the last generation of pure gas/diesel engine car be produced?

Question

2020? 2030?

the non-hybrid, non-electric, non-alternative feul, pure gas/diesel burning car be last made?

Answer 1

Diesel engines and biodiesel engines are identical. They were originally DESIGNED to run on veg-oil. So that will remain unchanged for as long as it's used. And since my '79 chevy can run on anything from E10 to E30, those engines also pass your test. Today.

Answer 2

Long after your great-great-great grandchildren are dead.

Answer 3

You need to find out yourself, but by each onlook you grow older by 15 hours.

Answer 4

i think that the mass produced cars such as toyota, ford etc.. will stop making cars that only run on gas when crude oil hits above $180 a year for more then 3 years straight. This 3 years will give them time to phase out their existing manufacturing plants and switch everything over.

this probably wont happen until about 2030 when we willl have come to the end of easy to get oil. Also oil is at $132 a barrel right now but i dont expect that to last for 3 years straigh do to the fact that its up on speculation on what WILL happen.

it all comes down to demand, if the consumer can no longer afford gas guzzling automobiles then auto compnaies will shift their cars to stay competitive

Answer 5

At the rate we are going, I would expect all new vehicles would be hybrids by 2020.

It would be uneconomical to convert completely in the next five years because the technology still has a cost imbalance. The only way to get costs down is through mass production but it will take a while.

Competition is a great thing when it comes to driving new technology.

Answer 6

80-100 years.  Internal combustion  is cheap reliable technology and lots of tooling exists for manufacturing and servicing them.  There will be a niche for them for a very long time until electric or hydrogen is very highly developed.