Let’s have a quick look at bullet points from the US Report as presented by Stanford University economist, Tony Seba. The report was innocuously titled: Rethinking Transportation 2020 – 2030.


There would be no more petrol or diesel vehicles sold anywhere in the world within eight years. The entire market for transportation will switch to electrification, leading to a collapse of oil prices and the demise of the petroleum industry as we know it •People will stop driving altogether. They will switch en-masse to self-drive electric vehicles (EVs) that are 10 times cheaper to run than fossil-based cars, with a near zero marginal cost of fuel and an expected lifespan of 1 million miles (1.6 million km)

Only nostalgics will cling to the old habit of car ownership. The rest will adapt to vehicles on demand. It will become harder to find a petrol station, spares, or anybody to fix the 2000 moving parts that bedevil the internal combustion engine. Dealers will disappear by 2024.

Cities will ban human drivers once the data confirms how dangerous they can be behind a wheel. There will be a “mass stranding of existing vehicles”. The value of second-hard cars will plunge. You will have to pay to dispose of your old vehicle.

It is a twin “death spiral” for big oil and big autos, with ugly implications for some big companies on the London Stock Exchange unless they adapt in time.

The long-term price of crude will fall to $US25 a barrel. Most forms of shale and deep-water drilling will no longer be viable. Assets will be stranded. Scotland will forfeit any North Sea bonanza. Russia, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Venezuela will be in trouble.

It is an existential threat to Ford, General Motors, and the German car industry. They will face a choice between manufacturing EVs in a brutal low-profit market, or reinventing themselves as self-drive service companies, variants of Uber and Lyft.

They are in the wrong business. The next generation of cars will be “computers on wheels”. Google, Apple, and Foxconn have the disruptive edge, and are going in for the kill. Silicon Valley is where the auto action is, not Detroit, Wolfsburg, or Toyota City.

The “tipping point” will arrive over the next two to three years as EV battery ranges surpass 200 miles and electric car prices in the US drop to $US30,000 ($40,600). By 2022, the low-end models will be down to $US20, 000. After that, the avalanche will sweep all before it.

These were a few of Professor Seba’s predictions – the ones most relevant to us, Nigerians as a nation.

After reading this “blood curdling” information from the US media, I switched over to online Nigerian Newspapers as is part of my daily morning routine. And believe me, what I read there was very comforting, uplifting and even comedic – I found myself smiling.

I read stuff like: It’s Either Biafra or Death – Nnamdi Kanu, Our Grouse with the Igbo – Ango Abdullahi, Niger Delta Youths Threaten the North, Don’t Include us in Your Biafra – Niger Delta Spits Fire, True Costs of Presidential Jet Parked in UK for President Buhari, Federal Government says “NO” to Restructuring, with prominent names like El-Rufai, President Buhari, Bukola Saraki and Tinubu springing up – and I was immediately relieved. I’d been transported in time and space to the world I am used to.

I went to the comments section – that beautiful, entertaining space under every Nigerian newspaper where all the prejudiced, bigoted, short-sighted, jobless and empty-headed Nigerians meet to trade ethnic/tribal insults – the online warriors, shooting bullets and throwing atomic bombs at each other. The Igbo man was shooting down the Yoruba man, the Yoruba man was responding in kind with his own insults, the Hausa man and the Niger Deltans were not left out – sporadic shooting everywhere. It was the Biafran war again, only the online version; fought not with guns, bullets and fighter jets, but with an MTN subscription and an android phone, from the comforts of their living rooms, probably watching DSTV and consuming lumps of eba the size of a child’s head.

Not one word was said about the energy crises, nothing was spoken about the imminence of self-driven electric cars that was going to disrupt our lives, and phase out a significant part of our national income and budget – forever! Nobody was talking about the Jack Ma prediction, that Artificial Intelligence was also about to create unprecedented unemployment in millions, forcing almost everybody to learn new skills to be relevant. Nobody. Nobody was asking questions like, “if indeed electric cars emerge to phase out petrol operated cars as expected, would Nigeria be able to cope, given the current epileptic condition of our power supply?”

Nobody was talking about the impact or adaptive strategies, or how we can race to recover lost time and perhaps save the futures of our children. Nobody, not one newspaper or media house raised the issue – and why would they? If they did, probably the comments section would be empty as the online warriors would not be able to comprehend things of such magnitude, let alone comment on them.

Those agitating for a referendum/restructuring and those against mostly take their positions based on their perception of the flow of oil resources – but what if there was no oil? Does Nigeria have an economic blueprint to survive without oil?

The first year of President Buhari’s regime saw over 4.6 million Nigerians lose their jobs and the nation plunge into a recession worse than any that has been seen in the last two decades – that story began with the gradual fall of oil prices to about $40 per barrel. Our income per capita contracted between 2014 and 2016, our government talks about loans to fund the smallest expenditures. When oil reaches the predicted price of $25 dollars – if we are still together – I wonder what our numerous online warriors, ethnic in all shades and colourations will do.

Restructuring – that heavy word – would be forced upon us. And I’ll tell you why. Our 36 states, a good number of which are not viable economic entities would be forced to depend on the overburdened centre for sustenance. The centre, without the benefits of oil revenues will say, “Please take care of yourselves!” It would be forced to devolve powers and autonomy to these regions to generate and control their incomes, as well as collapse/merge several states. No more oil resources to “corner” from any region, no more oil revenues to move to Swiss accounts. Restructuring by necessity.

What we need right now is to come together – irrespective of tribe, ethnic or religious background – and figure out how to solve the problem that’s ahead. We cannot, like ostriches, bury our heads in the sands, or think that we can wish away the changes that are happening globally. No, we also would have to adapt or die.

I want every Nigerian between the ages of 18 – 40 to realise that if electricity alone is stabilised in Nigeria, the trickle down economic benefits would touch every youth in Nigeria – irrespective of tribe, ethnic or religious background. Costs of goods will fall, new firms and indeed whole industries would be born, employment would be created, entrepreneurship will be boosted, our GDP will rise and our per capita income and standards of living will begin to mount.

I can positively say that this alone would be 10 to 20 times more beneficial to every ethnic ground than secession or referendum would bring to any ethnic group – ten to twenty times.

SOURCE : https://brandspurng.com/petrol-cars-will-vanish-globally-in-8-years-2025/

froz:
Let’s have a quick look at bullet points from the US Report as presented by Stanford University economist, Tony Seba. The report was innocuously titled: Rethinking Transportation 2020 – 2030.


There would be no more petrol or diesel vehicles sold anywhere in the world within eight years. The entire market for transportation will switch to electrification, leading to a collapse of oil prices and the demise of the petroleum industry as we know it •People will stop driving altogether. They will switch en-masse to self-drive electric vehicles (EVs) that are 10 times cheaper to run than fossil-based cars, with a near zero marginal cost of fuel and an expected lifespan of 1 million miles (1.6 million km)

Only nostalgics will cling to the old habit of car ownership. The rest will adapt to vehicles on demand. It will become harder to find a petrol station, spares, or anybody to fix the 2000 moving parts that bedevil the internal combustion engine. Dealers will disappear by 2024.

Cities will ban human drivers once the data confirms how dangerous they can be behind a wheel. There will be a “mass stranding of existing vehicles”. The value of second-hard cars will plunge. You will have to pay to dispose of your old vehicle.

It is a twin “death spiral” for big oil and big autos, with ugly implications for some big companies on the London Stock Exchange unless they adapt in time.

The long-term price of crude will fall to $US25 a barrel. Most forms of shale and deep-water drilling will no longer be viable. Assets will be stranded. Scotland will forfeit any North Sea bonanza. Russia, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Venezuela will be in trouble.

It is an existential threat to Ford, General Motors, and the German car industry. They will face a choice between manufacturing EVs in a brutal low-profit market, or reinventing themselves as self-drive service companies, variants of Uber and Lyft.

They are in the wrong business. The next generation of cars will be “computers on wheels”. Google, Apple, and Foxconn have the disruptive edge, and are going in for the kill. Silicon Valley is where the auto action is, not Detroit, Wolfsburg, or Toyota City.

The “tipping point” will arrive over the next two to three years as EV battery ranges surpass 200 miles and electric car prices in the US drop to $US30,000 ($40,600). By 2022, the low-end models will be down to $US20, 000. After that, the avalanche will sweep all before it.

These were a few of Professor Seba’s predictions – the ones most relevant to us, Nigerians as a nation.

After reading this “blood curdling” information from the US media, I switched over to online Nigerian Newspapers as is part of my daily morning routine. And believe me, what I read there was very comforting, uplifting and even comedic – I found myself smiling.

I read stuff like: It’s Either Biafra or Death – Nnamdi Kanu, Our Grouse with the Igbo – Ango Abdullahi, Niger Delta Youths Threaten the North, Don’t Include us in Your Biafra – Niger Delta Spits Fire, True Costs of Presidential Jet Parked in UK for President Buhari, Federal Government says “NO” to Restructuring, with prominent names like El-Rufai, President Buhari, Bukola Saraki and Tinubu springing up – and I was immediately relieved. I’d been transported in time and space to the world I am used to.

I went to the comments section – that beautiful, entertaining space under every Nigerian newspaper where all the prejudiced, bigoted, short-sighted, jobless and empty-headed Nigerians meet to trade ethnic/tribal insults – the online warriors, shooting bullets and throwing atomic bombs at each other. The Igbo man was shooting down the Yoruba man, the Yoruba man was responding in kind with his own insults, the Hausa man and the Niger Deltans were not left out – sporadic shooting everywhere. It was the Biafran war again, only the online version; fought not with guns, bullets and fighter jets, but with an MTN subscription and an android phone, from the comforts of their living rooms, probably watching DSTV and consuming lumps of eba the size of a child’s head.

Not one word was said about the energy crises, nothing was spoken about the imminence of self-driven electric cars that was going to disrupt our lives, and phase out a significant part of our national income and budget – forever! Nobody was talking about the Jack Ma prediction, that Artificial Intelligence was also about to create unprecedented unemployment in millions, forcing almost everybody to learn new skills to be relevant. Nobody. Nobody was asking questions like, “if indeed electric cars emerge to phase out petrol operated cars as expected, would Nigeria be able to cope, given the current epileptic condition of our power supply?”

Nobody was talking about the impact or adaptive strategies, or how we can race to recover lost time and perhaps save the futures of our children. Nobody, not one newspaper or media house raised the issue – and why would they? If they did, probably the comments section would be empty as the online warriors would not be able to comprehend things of such magnitude, let alone comment on them.

Those agitating for a referendum/restructuring and those against mostly take their positions based on their perception of the flow of oil resources – but what if there was no oil? Does Nigeria have an economic blueprint to survive without oil?

The first year of President Buhari’s regime saw over 4.6 million Nigerians lose their jobs and the nation plunge into a recession worse than any that has been seen in the last two decades – that story began with the gradual fall of oil prices to about $40 per barrel. Our income per capita contracted between 2014 and 2016, our government talks about loans to fund the smallest expenditures. When oil reaches the predicted price of $25 dollars – if we are still together – I wonder what our numerous online warriors, ethnic in all shades and colourations will do.

Restructuring – that heavy word – would be forced upon us. And I’ll tell you why. Our 36 states, a good number of which are not viable economic entities would be forced to depend on the overburdened centre for sustenance. The centre, without the benefits of oil revenues will say, “Please take care of yourselves!” It would be forced to devolve powers and autonomy to these regions to generate and control their incomes, as well as collapse/merge several states. No more oil resources to “corner” from any region, no more oil revenues to move to Swiss accounts. Restructuring by necessity.

What we need right now is to come together – irrespective of tribe, ethnic or religious background – and figure out how to solve the problem that’s ahead. We cannot, like ostriches, bury our heads in the sands, or think that we can wish away the changes that are happening globally. No, we also would have to adapt or die.

I want every Nigerian between the ages of 18 – 40 to realise that if electricity alone is stabilised in Nigeria, the trickle down economic benefits would touch every youth in Nigeria – irrespective of tribe, ethnic or religious background. Costs of goods will fall, new firms and indeed whole industries would be born, employment would be created, entrepreneurship will be boosted, our GDP will rise and our per capita income and standards of living will begin to mount.

I can positively say that this alone would be 10 to 20 times more beneficial to every ethnic ground than secession or referendum would bring to any ethnic group – ten to twenty times.

SOURCE : https://brandspurng.com/petrol-cars-will-vanish-globally-in-8-years-2025/

Taa, Innoson vehicles will still be producing petrol powered vehicles. Oga, no dey talk wetin u no know o.
On a serious note, Nigeria is still miles and miles away because we just don't have the infrastructure and i don't see it improving in this current regime, let's meet wen next regime come tk discuss this again

princetom1:


Taa, Innoson vehicles will still be producing petrol powered vehicles. Oga, no dey talk wetin u no know o.
On a serious note, Nigeria is still miles and miles away because we just don't have the infrastructure and i don't see it improving in this current regime, let's meet wen next regime come tk discuss this again

So? seems u dont get it, The world is moving on. who cares if u still use petrol cars till year 3000.
Just know say Oil business will be dying and its a sign telling u to focus on other sectors of the economy.

when barrels dey and no one to buy and ur country no sabi refine. Unable to produce cars from scratch not assembling them like what is happening now. ur eye go clear.

Sadly, people will ignore this...

So you people are bothered with cars, who told you the world will make it to 2025?

Abeg i have sold my car and bought a nuclear war head, cause thats the most important thing right now.

princetom1:


Taa, Innoson vehicles will still be producing petrol powered vehicles. Oga, no dey talk wetin u no know o.
On a serious note, Nigeria is still miles and miles away because we just don't have the infrastructure and i don't see it improving in this current regime, let's meet wen next regime come tk discuss this again

Seriously? You had to quote the whole article?

Anyways, even if Innoson continues to "produce" fossil fuel (PMS/AGO) powered cars, I believe they can be certain economic sanctions imposed on counties who would still encourage such productions and or imports/exports blockage on their trade.

Last week there was a report that an iceberg ten times the size of London had broken off in the Antarctic, and there was a risk of water levels going up and coastal cities around the world being flooded. Going by this threat and let's say such flooding eventually happens, you can be certain world governments and the powers that be would take such sanctions (against fossil fuel powered cars) seriously. Global warming is real sir.

nurey:
So you people are bothered with cars, who told you the world will make it to 2025?

Abeg i have sold my car and bought a nuclear war head, cause thats the most important thing right now.

Toks or brand new?

cyborg123:


Toks or brand new?

i cant categorically tell you anything now so my boss at the top wont say something else, but we dont share link so you wont be a threat.

nurey:


i cant categorically tell you anything now so my boss at the top wont say something else, but we dont share link so you wont be a threat.

hmmmm!
Toks Nuclear head?

LOL

Some fumes from cars just not it at all