You live in north America. For a slew of reasons. The arrival of the electric car in quantity will probably be late here. My guess is we will be the last developed area of the world to really see them in high numbers. They are likely to be highly electronic in nature and even use heat pumps for heat and air conditioning.

When the arrive in numbers yes there will be changes. I still visualise a lot of service will be needed. The internal combustion engine will not likely phase out totally for a long time either. Anyways as soon as certified in whatever course of action you decide on.

Not all people can run their own business. Yet that is a direction to seek. It takes some fortitude and more learning. Yet to me having control of your own working destiny was important. Some people just are more cut out for doing it it than others.

The Chinese especially have been working on ways to get more energy density into batteries. The technology is still based on lithium so far. This is a semi dangerous technology. If a battery shorts internally the whole pack can ignite in a violent self sustaining eruption. There will be people incinerated in electric cars over time. It results in a self sustaining manner so technically you should not keep an electric vehicle in a garage attached to your house. Unless that garage is really fireproofed well beyond todays code requirements. With a sprinkler system to stop the spread of the car burning.

The future promise for alternate powered vehicles is very much dependent on man's eventual understanding of science. There exists energy sources that nobody really understands still. Other than the full awareness currently that they exist. Personally I find this odd that the knowledge of them is well proven. Still nobody yet has been able to determine how they function. My guess is Russia is intent on research in these areas. Where China is advancing so fast in artificial intelligence development. America has asked them to stop.

So if the discovery of what these unknown energy fprces are occurs. They may prove useful or not depending on a lot of factors. Remember from a historical perspective the electron always existed. Look how long man existed before it was well enough understood to work with it. In less than 100 years it has become a really signifigant item of continuous development. In applying it.


I was an electronic tech and the changes alone in my career where nothing less than mind boggling. I only worked in the field for about twenty five years. Just got tired of it and moved on to other fields.