The REVOLUTIONARY Case: Why the Electric Vehicle Makes the ICE Car OBSOLETE
The Appalling Complexity and Obsolescence of ICE Cars
The truth is, even the fiercest-looking V12 or W16 ICE sports cars are fundamentally the same as any common economy car: they are all powered by a crude, backward method requiring the burning of fossil fuels. The internal combustion engine, a product from the late era of James Watt, has made no substantial progress since 1885. It relies on a violent, explosive chemical reaction that converts fuel into motion. Consider the following:- Extreme Conditions: The combustion core temperature can reach over 2,500 degrees Celsius, with pressures easily exceeding 100 atmospheres (up to 3,000 atmospheres in some diesels).
- Constant Violence: For every kilometer your car drives, there are over 4,000 explosions inside the engine.
- Engineering Tragedy: The effort required to keep the driver from perceiving these constant explosions is the *only* progress ICE cars have made in a century.
- Transmission: A bizarrely complex component necessary only to compensate for the engine’s primitive, narrow power band.
- Accessory Power: Everything from the air conditioning, power steering, and coolant pump must draw power from this single shaft via belts and pulleys, resulting in inefficient, fixed-rate functions (e.g., AC output tied to engine RPM).
- Wasted Energy: Although a modern gasoline engine can be 40% efficient, the complex transmission system drags the total vehicle efficiency down to less than 15% (and as low as 6% while idling).
The ICE Car’s “Intelligence Tax”
Driving an ICE car means you are participating in a REVOLUTIONARY tragedy of waste and inefficiency:- Burning Valuable Resources: Petroleum is a critical industrial raw material. Burning it directly for transportation is technologically illiterate—it turns your car into a “mobile mahogany burner.”
- Paying the Intelligence Tax: Due to the ICE car’s appalling complexity, you must pay an “intelligence tax” in the form of regular, expensive, and often corrupt maintenance for lubrication, cooling, ignition, transmission, and filtration systems.
