The correct answer is this:
- In highly developed countries, there is a high probability that there will be a dramatic reduction in the production and sales of PERSONAL vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. There are all the conditions for this - an acceptable income of the majority of the population to replace/buy hybrid/electric cars, a developed infrastructure for electric cars.
- In other countries, there will be a trend, but there will not be a quick transition. The reasons are exactly the opposite - insufficient income level of citizens, lagging behind the infrastructure of generation and delivery of electricity for cars of mass use.
There is more to why this adaptation of electronic cars will be difficult in less developed countries, it's not that some individuals don't have the money to purchase this vehicles to follow the trend but where to use it becomes a challenge due to bad roads. Most of these hybrid cars can only be use where there is good roads and source of electricity and the less developed countries are always having this problem of having 24/7 power supply, how will they use these cars, they don't have good infrastructure to begin with, I can't imagine cases of emergency and no source of power in the car, it will be a terrible thing to observed.
The dream of no petrol cars might be effective and soar in developed countries but I don't think so for third world countries that are struggling to feed and cure poverty rate, because it has been proven that Electric cars are even more costly than petrol cars. Many people will settle for the lessers price even in developed countries where the trend will be available.
What about electric SUVs ? There is a
good number of such cars available on the market, which makes bad roads aint biggest problem of electric car adoption. Price isnt the bigger problem as well. Yes electric cars are more expensive than cars that runs on regular petrol, but we are now in electric cars trend. 5-10 years and we wont be surprised to see electric car in a tiny and forgotten village.
The main problems are short number of charging stations (that depends from the city and more stations can be installed with time) and charging time. Until developers dont figure out how to fully charge electric car with less than 5 min and make them run for +700km on a single tank, there wont be mass adoption. Current electric cars are for use in-city only. As soon as you want to travel or drive out of the city, we go back 30-50 years. To times when we have to plan our route, we are bond to using map. Yet we cant hop in and drive in any direction we want and as long as we want.