Electric Vehicles

They mention Norway in the article and it's NOT hard to find a fuel pump. Granted many petrol stations has shut down, but often at least one pump remain. And many stations has rebranded as "energy stations".

What bugs me with the EV market is how you need a fucking app for every fucking vendor when charging on the road (and how Tesla cornered many of the prime spots and tried shut everyone else out)

Filling up with diesel/petrol I just tap my card at the pump and validate with pin. With EV it's apparently "not possible". And many of these vendors dont spend much on their crap software. Its pure lock-in.

Power Steering fluid is phasing out too. I'm hoping EVs eventually get rid of as many fluids as possible.

Currently at a few percent EVs there is a pretty decent charging infrastructure around. There is no reason that would not be the case for combustion engine cars, especially since it has been built already.

However what we will see is refineries being shut down, as they have to run at at least 80% capacity for technical reasons. So above 20% EV sales starts causing trouble for them. Especially in markets like Europe, where car adoption is not going to go up a lot. Obviously exports are an option as well, but to a limited extend. There are also not that many refineries around. The EU has less then 100 for example.

while not wrong things will not be significant that fast. The average car is 12 years old and so there will be many years of enough still on the road to support existing cars.

Stations will greatly slow down building new gas pumps soon, but existing pumps are a sunk cost - you won't tear them out without good reason as the money they make is still a nice addition to the bottom line for most stations..

Spare parts often are available long after any new car uses that part - there is a lot of money in autoparts and so someone will make then for 15-20 years to get the market, OEMs keep their molds around just to makes spare parts for years. Modern cars the drawings are electronic so they can make new ones (at a cost) even without the molds. A machinist doesn't care if the part is for a car, custom drum kit, or a widget factory - just will you pay them.

Eventually gas cars will be colletcors items with fuel spercial ordered. however that will be many years yet,

Relatedly, I’d like a similar article regarding the gas network. Folks rely on gas for heating and cooking. As, generally the more well off, migrate to heat pumps and induction hobs there will be fewer users of the gas network. At some point the whole thing becomes economically unviable, leaving those less well off trapped in spiralling costs.

I understand why “those” businesses won’t evolve… gotta transition with the times with everyone else. Same business different maintenance.

I guess either be tracked or risk a bike and walking again

But you cannot own any EV because they are internet connected proprietary trash. Fully open source hardware is essential to democracy. Proprietary, internet connected vehicles are dystopian fascism. Democracy is fundamentally incompatible with trust in anyone else. Trust is a fascist political structure. Citizens in a democracy have a requirement to be informed and skeptical of all sources. Skepticism is the antithesis of trust. Trust is for halfwit fools victimized by cons.