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Consumer grade vehicles and industrial vehicles are very different things

Combustion engines will be around for the next 100 years, even if human society mostly collapsed

Ground based? Doubt it, it will either be batteries or hydrogen (in case of long-haul trucks, but even those are getting viable battery powered alternatives). Sea-going? Already more difficult, and definitely beyond 2035, but there are alternatibes as well (hydrogen being one of those). Which leaves aircraft, there, at the moment, it seems SAF is the way to go as batteries are simoly to heavy to be used on transcontinental flights, not to mention that there aren'tvthat much commercial, battery-powered planes existing right now.

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