Interesting question, not directly to do with EVs, but related.
If we see EVs take over on the roads, this has serious implications about the availability of fuel for other uses. Some of these uses include internal combustion engines that are expected to have a lifetime running into decades, but for which it is difficult to see an electric equivalent.
Some examples :- Emergency and backup generators. Firefighting pumps at rural houses and on rural properties. Water transfer pumps that are only required occasionally but are away from infrastructure. Portable grain augers. Cement mixers for use away from infrastructure. General purpose tractors on most farms that are decades old, but only do a few tens of hours a year.
Then there are machinery that is required to operate long hours away from infrastructure:- Fire engines for rural firefighting. Agricultural machinery that is required to operate 24hrs a day but only for a few weeks per year, for harvest, ploughing, etc. Earthmoving machinery.
John
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1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
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