The Quiet Collapse of the Gasoline Engine
Even before the last EV mandate, the internal-combustion engine is being engineered out of new showrooms on economics alone.
Efficiency has hit its ceiling
Ninety years of incremental tweaks — turbocharging, direct injection, cylinder deactivation — have squeezed petrol engines to a theoretical limit. Each remaining percentage point of efficiency now costs billions in R&D.
Meanwhile electric powertrains improve on a compounding curve. The engine is not being banned; it is being priced out.
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