There isn’t a week that we don’t have new news about the future of personal mobility. The timeline seems clear for now, and the doomsday clock for the combustion engine is ticking away with a countdown of just 12 years. At that point, the combustion engine as we know it for today’s vehicles will end, or at least that’s being said for the time being. Except, for now at least, motorcycles.
But behind all this green wave is more than just an interest in our health, the environment and our future. There is a fierce battle between various pressure groups with economic interests. If you think politicians work on your principles and interests, I apologize for this pitcher of cold water.
The fact is that on the one hand there is an electric “lobby” which, as one would expect, puts considerable pressure on all mobility to go electric. The pie to be shared is huge and if the 20th century and part of the 21st was overrun by the oil companies, now they want to complete the takeover. But, as could also be predicted, oil pressure groups continued to fight for a moratorium one way or another, and both did so with their political representatives in both Brussels and London. In fact, they haven’t stopped presenting reports in one direction or another, the last of which we have evidence to support the use of alternative fuels.
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