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2022 Suzukis = bold new graphics and not much else

He's still in the mindset that batteries will be charged and not swapped, which a consortium of manufacturers are working on. It's not going to be easy for ICE motorcycles when the government has closed all the gas stations.

"The government" isn't going to close all the gas stations. 2035-ish is supposed to be the end of selling new combustion-engine-powered light-duty cars and trucks. Heavier vehicles with ICE will continue being sold some time beyond that, and it will take another 10 or 15 years to change out most of the existing fleet. BUT ... Once that timeframe starts getting closer, no one in their right mind will invest in the construction of a new filling station, and I've seen that in Norway (which has very high EV uptake) some filling stations have started ripping out the petrol pumps and installing fast-charging stations in their place.

If things continue as planned, it might start getting harder to find petrol sometime in the 2045 - 2050 timeframe. Charging stations, on the other hand, are sure to be everywhere by that time.

The next generation of lithium batteries are expected to start showing up 2025-ish, and that's also roughly when it is believed that the purchase cost of a new EV will achieve parity with a new ICE vehicle.

Eventually, few people will want combustion engines any more.

At the manufacturer level, most have drastically cut back on combustion-engine R&D and several have said that the engines they have in production today will carry them through to the end, with only minor tweaks as needed.

If Suzuki management is smart, they'll be quietly developing electric powertrains.

Triumph is. Yamaha is. Honda is. Kawasaki is. Harley-Davidson already has one in production.
 
"The government" isn't going to close all the gas stations. 2035-ish is supposed to be the end of selling new combustion-engine-powered light-duty cars and trucks. Heavier vehicles with ICE will continue being sold some time beyond that, and it will take another 10 or 15 years to change out most of the existing fleet. BUT ... Once that timeframe starts getting closer, no one in their right mind will invest in the construction of a new filling station, and I've seen that in Norway (which has very high EV uptake) some filling stations have started ripping out the petrol pumps and installing fast-charging stations in their place.

If things continue as planned, it might start getting harder to find petrol sometime in the 2045 - 2050 timeframe. Charging stations, on the other hand, are sure to be everywhere by that time.

The next generation of lithium batteries are expected to start showing up 2025-ish, and that's also roughly when it is believed that the purchase cost of a new EV will achieve parity with a new ICE vehicle.

Eventually, few people will want combustion engines any more.

At the manufacturer level, most have drastically cut back on combustion-engine R&D and several have said that the engines they have in production today will carry them through to the end, with only minor tweaks as needed.

If Suzuki management is smart, they'll be quietly developing electric powertrains.

Triumph is. Yamaha is. Honda is. Kawasaki is. Harley-Davidson already has one in production.

Agree, but it still won't be easy when they're closed. :LOL:
 

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