About for a new world of 'AutoTech'

What car will you be driving in the future? Or will the car itself be doing the driving? In Wall Street Journal's Saturday Review I explore the "triad" of "AutoTech" - electricvehicles, ride-hailing, and autonomousvehicles - and what it means for people's lives -- and even relations between the United States and China.

There will be a run on gas powered vehicles, not to reject the changes, but the nostalgia of what once was.

I think the goals are way too ambitious, and believe they will move back. They were simply set to begin the transformation. So much infrastructure needs to be put in place, so many jobs need to be replaced, as well as businesses that will be lost (there are 750,000 mechanics in the U.S. today and more than 150,000 repair shops), tax structure (gas taxes power a lot more than infrastructure as seen by the 3T infrastructure bill), insurance liability, power grid challenges, battery tech for cold weather areas (current estimate is that cold weather reduces a Tesla's range by 34%), lots left to do.

See the need, just don't believe the shift can be made this quickly.

The expansion, accessibility and convenience of fast-charging systems will also be critical for the rate of adoption to BEVs. The mobility aspect for the young generation will definitely look different - the topic of future of mobility is extremely exciting: believe also that the aerial space close to surface will be part of the mobility space. And what about the billion vehicles with ICEs? Can everyone afford to switch to a BEV - or ways to come up with an affordable factory concept to retrofit light trucks etc with batteries and electric motors? These times are exciting!

What are your thoughts?

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