This is my exact reason for starting this site.

Cars will change more in the next 10 years than they have in the last 100.

Almost every car on the street right now will be valueless.

— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) November 18, 2013

Redditor AFDIT gives a good overview overview of the talk above:

EVs:

1. Disruption = a new market / complete take over of an old one.
2. You can’t compete with the performance.
3. Costs for batteries / EVs keep coming down. Gigafactory etc will bring EV prices to mid-range car levels by 2017, to low cost car prices by 2020. By 2030 there will be no non-EVs being manufactured. Petrol will no longer be produced by 2030.
4. Self-driving cars around the corner. Also has ever-reducing prices as with EVs. Market is ready for them (poll in the ground). Will use “unused road space on the highways”.
5. As-A-Service cars will be driving themselves 99% of the time. Projection is that manufacturers will reduce sales by 80% as there will be fewer cars necessary. Car parking will no longer be needed. This will lead to city re-designs.

Solar:

1. Cost has dropped from $100W to $65W. This helped cause installation growth at 100x between 2000 & 2013 (43% per year). Projection at this rate shows all global energy produced by Solar by 2030.
2. Relative to Oil Solar has “increased it’s position” 5300x
3. “Grid cost convergence” will beat all other fuel costs by ~2017.

Tony Seba, author of “Clean Disruption” gives the keynote address at the AltCars Expo and Conference,Sept 19, 2014.The keynote is titled “Clean Disruption: 100% electric transportation and 100% solar power by 2030″.

The book ‘Clean Disruption’ and this keynote assert that by 2030: • All new mass-market vehicles will be electric. • All of these vehicles will be autonomous (self-driving). • Up to 80 per cent of parking spaces and highways will be redundant. • Taxis as we know them will be obsolete. • The concept of car ownership will be obsolete. • Oil will be obsolete • All new energy will be provided by solar (and wind)

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