Original 2021 statement: We’re obviously shifting from driving cars based on gas and internal combustion engines to those based on batteries and electric - and it will happen faster than you think
What Jim has written about this
From “Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”” (January 2023)
Human longevity in industrialized nations will undergo the first significant decline, dropping an average of 10 years, mostly with those who think science is not a thing
From “Daily Inspiration: “The decline in carbon energy and the end of the internal combustion engine…”” (November 2019)
“ The decline in carbon energy and the end of the internal combustion engine. Renewable power storage solutions and electric vehicles based upon advanced battery technology. The future is disruptive, fast and transformative !” - Futurist Jim Carroll
Oil is over, carbon is done, ICE is in perpetual decline (that’s the internal combustion energy), and the business model of big centralized energy utilities is done.
The future is electric, batteries, renewables, distributed - and fast!
From “Daily Inspiration: The Future and Change - ""Certain trends are inevitable. Your inability to accept them should not be.”” (September 2023)
The strike has come as the traditional automakers invest billions to develop electric vehicles while still making most of their money from gasoline-driven cars. The negotiations will determine the balance of power between workers and management, possibly for years to come. That makes the strike as much a struggle for the industry’s future as it is about wages, benefits and working conditions.
This much is true - as I often characterize on stage, the industry is in the midst of a massive transformation as cars become ’ big batteries with wheels.’ And workers are scrambling to ensure they have a role, which is certainly fair. But the talks are about more than pay. Workers are trying to defend jobs as manufacturing shifts from internal combustion engines to batteries. Because they have fewer parts, electric cars can be made with fewer workers than gasoline vehicles. A favorable outcome for the U.A.W. would also give the union a strong calling card if, as some expect, it then tries to organize employees at Tesla and other nonunion carmakers like Hyundai, which is planning to manufacture electric vehicles at a massive new factory in Georgia.
For workers, the biggest concern is that electric vehicles have far fewer parts than gasoline models and will render many jobs obsolete. Plants that make mufflers, catalytic converters, fuel injectors and other components that electric cars don’t need will have to be overhauled or shut down
Read the full pieces on jimcarroll.com:
Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”
Daily Inspiration: “The decline in carbon energy and the end of the internal combustion engine…”
Daily Inspiration: The Future and Change - ""Certain trends are inevitable. Your inability to accept them should not be.”