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What Putin, Xi Jinping and Biden know about electric cars that we don’t

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Traditionally, the best and most modern car options first appeared on premium cars, then gradually moved to more affordable classes. This was the case with the vending machine,

What Putin, Xi Jinping and Biden know about electric cars that we don’t
Traditionally, the best and most modern car options first appeared on premium cars, then gradually moved to more affordable classes. This was the case with the vending machine, the air conditioning and the music. There are hundreds of examples. The AutoVzglyad portal investigated whether the electric motor would follow this path.

It seems the world has gone crazy for electric vehicles: Tesla, Zeekr and Avatr, Voyah and Evolute, and why not even Moskvich! Mankind firmly believes that the future has arrived, and with it the era of electricity in the automotive industry. Electric trains have free parking and, pardon the oxymoron, free toll roads, free refueling and the most impressive acceleration. The speed characteristics of even the most affordable electric vehicles make BMW and Porsche owners cry. Do we send the combustion engine to a museum? It seems like everything is going that way: the electric Gelik is on its way, and the electric Mustang is already in action.

And we have to agree, admit that the page has been turned, close the gas station, but something incomprehensible in the depths of our consciousness does not allow us to do this. There is a certain wormhole in this all-encompassing theory that the house of cards called ‘electric car’ will collapse with one light breath. And not only and not so much in Russian reality, but in the entire sublunary world. I would like to remember Stanislavsky and shout the canonical: “I don’t believe it.” And that’s why.

Recently, Chairman Xi met with President Biden and occasionally the gentlemen and comrades discussed their “cars” (all men are the same). Each boasted of his own: the first arrived on the “Red Banner”, and the President on the “Beast”. Both car industries, the Chinese and the American, are known for their electric cars: however, both politicians came to the top while smoking.

The Hongqi N701 is equipped with a six-liter 12-cylinder petrol engine, while its ‘colleague’, the 10-ton Cadillac One, nicknamed Beast, runs on diesel. The exact performance characteristics of the American’s power unit are not disclosed, but judging by the other characteristics of the limousine, under the hood there is a sharpener that is not at all suppressed by the environment.

Vladimir Putin can afford any car in any configuration, but the presidential Aurus Senat Limousine is equipped with a 4.4-liter V-shaped eight-cylinder gasoline turbo engine. By the way, there is talk of upcoming changes: the current engine will be replaced by a new, more powerful one. Do you think it’s electric? Disappointing: 6.6 liter V12 with four turbos, good for 830 hp. I’m sure Jeremy Clarkson would have liked this powerplant, not Greta Thunberg.

And what should we think in this regard? Either those in power know more about electric trains than mere mortals, or the current trend is just a well-advertised and well-produced temporary campaign that will soon be forgotten. This, as they say, is for today, not forever. Otherwise, the guys described above would have been the first to receive the “electric trains”. But “Red Banner”, “Beast” and “Aurus” are equipped with combustion engines, not electric motors. And you can completely rely on this, unlike the sweet words of marketers.

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It seems the world has gone crazy for electric vehicles: Tesla, Zeekr and Avatr, Voyah and Evolute, and why not even Moskvich! Mankind firmly believes that the future has arrived, and with it the era of electricity in the automotive industry. Electric trains have free parking and, pardon the oxymoron, free toll roads, free refueling and the most impressive acceleration. The speed characteristics of even the most affordable electric vehicles make BMW and Porsche owners cry. Do we send the combustion engine to a museum? It seems like everything is going that way: the electric Gelik is on its way, and the electric Mustang is already in action.

And we have to agree, admit that the page has been turned, close the gas station, but something incomprehensible in the depths of our consciousness does not allow us to do this. There is a certain wormhole in this all-encompassing theory that the house of cards called “electric car” will collapse with one light breath. And not only and not so much in Russian reality, but in the entire sublunary world. I would like to remember Stanislavsky and shout the canonical: “I don’t believe it.” And that’s why.

Recently, Chairman Xi met with President Biden and occasionally the gentlemen and comrades discussed their “cars” (all men are the same). Each boasted of his own: the first arrived on the “Red Banner”, and the President on the “Beast”. Both car industries, the Chinese and the American, are known for their electric cars: however, both politicians came to the top while smoking.

The Hongqi N701 is equipped with a six-liter 12-cylinder petrol engine, while its ‘colleague’, the 10-ton Cadillac One, nicknamed Beast, runs on diesel. The exact performance characteristics of the American’s power unit are not disclosed, but judging by the other characteristics of the limousine, under the hood there is a sharpener that is not at all suppressed by the environment.

Vladimir Putin can afford any car in any configuration, but the presidential Aurus Senat Limousine is equipped with a 4.4-liter V-shaped eight-cylinder gasoline turbo engine. By the way, there is talk of upcoming changes: the current engine will be replaced by a new, more powerful one. Do you think it’s electric? Disappointing: 6.6 liter V12 with four turbos, good for 830 hp. I’m sure Jeremy Clarkson would have liked this powerplant, not Greta Thunberg.

And what should we think in this regard? Either those in power know more about electric trains than mere mortals, or the current trend is just a well-advertised and well-produced temporary campaign that will soon be forgotten. This, as they say, is for today, not forever. Otherwise, the guys described above would have been the first to receive the “electric trains”. But “Red Banner”, “Beast” and “Aurus” are equipped with combustion engines, not electric motors. And you can completely rely on this, unlike the sweet words of marketers.

Source: Avto Vzglyad

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