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Unfortunately this thing is inevitable with fleet fuel economy requirements. Global companies needing to satisfy very different regulations around the world while developing "one size fits most" products around these regulations. It's just inevitable. Manual transmissions are (not will be) just another victim of this. Those crappy sounding hybrid F1 cars run at 52% thermal efficiency..."impossible" 20 years ago
BMW is positioned well as is Toyota. Tesla is out on a limb and if they don't deliver in the next 3-5 years they will find themselves very quickly owned by GM or Ford.
Crazy thing is if they addressed the fuel economy of supertankers that transport our fossil fuels they'd save way more CO2s than addressing the fleet of vehicles worldwide. It's something around 20 supertankers produce more CO2 than all the cars worldwide...
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