What will you be driving in 10 years?

My kids will be in their mid-teens by then. My preference, if the vehicles are available and I had the money:

Lexus Version of the Sequoia Fuel Cell
Lexus GS Fuel Cell

If I don't have the money:

Prius
Sienna Hybrid

Unless there's a mojor overhaul upstairs (both in management and in their thinking) at GM, I see myself driving a Toyota in 10 years.

 

I absolutely seeing myself driving a PHEV gasoline car, hopefully next generation Prius, within 5 years, and hopefully available starting in 2008. I'll be ready to buy in 2009, not just because I'm getting a new Prius, but I never buy in the first model year of a major redesign. The infrastructure is already completely in place and I already subscibe to "clean source" electrical power.

Within 10 years, I see myself driving a pure EV vehicle, hopefully with solar panels on the roof of the house to charge it (thanks to Darell for the vision that it's entirely feasible!)

I think ethanol is just a stop gap measure to continue to support the obsolete internal combustion engine.

I think hydrogen and fuel cells are a complete pipe dream and will have little or no practical application in the future. There lacks infrastructure for its deployment which would be extremely costly and a fuel cell is just an extremely inefficient type of battery. Hydrogen and fuel cells have been heavily used as a public relations gimmick by automanufacturers for far too long and have produced zero results.

 

2016 should be near the end for my 2001 Prius. I will have to leave it sooner (in search of EV) if the fuel prices rise rapidly.

 

In ten years, I will still be driving the car of the future...a bicycle!

 

I'll be driving my 2009 dark blue/gray interior Prius with the highest package they have. It will be five years old and have less than 50,000 miles on it. Hopefully it will be lithium/Ion and will be a plug-in and have an EV switch. (I may have to have that installed myself)

And I'll be retired.

20 years from now my Prius will be EV.

 

This is a really interesting question. I read something several months ago about a decision by Chrysler not to build a hybrid because they do not believe it will be the dominant technology down the road. I don't know if I agree with them. I think we will end up with a variety of choices just as we have variety of vehicle options today.

 

I hope to still be driving my current Prius. I figure, if my Saturn lasted me 9 years (bought it used when it was 1 yr old) and 180K miles, then why shouldn't I think that the Prius will last me as long if not longer?

 

I would love to see how much I can get out of this car but the new technology is quite enticing. As I see it I should change in 08-10 like Godiva as I hope to retire around that time as well. That way I can drive it well into my retirement years w/o cost.

 

Our 2005 Prius and a Trek bicycle. Both vehicles will have had excellent maintenance and care and be in "as new" condition.

 

In ten years I'll be driving a big Mercedes SUV when transporting the kids, and a Porshce when I'm not.

 

Hopefully something that burns alcohol, seats two, has an automated flip up body, and will hit 200mph in the blink of an eye.

 

I usually drive a car for 10 to 12 years, so I suspect it will be this Prius. On the other hand, if significant improvements are made, I might be tempted to upgrade to a new Prius.

Tom

 

The most expensive Porsche I can afford.

 

As soon as a 200-mile electric is available, we won't be driving anything that uses liquid fuel. Love my Prius, and dislike that it requires gasoline. As soon as something better comes along (even a PHEV) my current Prius will be out of here. In ten years, I'll bet we still have our Rav4EV (my daughter will just be getting her driver's license then, and I've always assumed that she'll get the Rav as her first car. If not other electrics come out by then, the Rav will be worth about $200k.

In short: In ten years I'll be driving electric, without needing ANY gasoline.

 

I see some form of PHEV as being my vehicle of choice in 10 years. [sorry darelldd, I don't see all-electrics making it. Even with
vastly improved batteries(any day now). In my opinion the hybrid is an inherently a more flexible format]

What sort of fuel the ICE will be running is anybody's guess. There are a lot of interesting possibilities. Probably not gasoline.

 

If I could get a used Lexus LS600H in good condition under $40G in ten years that would be grand!
Probably sell/give my Prius to the kids a few years after when they are old enough to drive.

 

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Interesting post, because every word in it I agree with completely.

 

I hope to be driving something like VW's 1L operational concept car in my avatar pic to the left. The 1L is not for the engine displacement but for the less than 1L of diesel it used driving 100 km on public roads.

I'd like mine to have a larger energy source, achieving over 100 mpg and a 120 mph top speed instead of the concept car's 240 mpg and 75 mph top speed. I'll leave it to the engineers to develop the best economical energy source whether it's clean bio-diesel, hybrid, plug-in, fuel cell, ethanol, or some combination of these.

If this isn't available I'd like to have a similar very lightweight tandem two seater to complement my bicycle and my wife's more traditional Prius.

 

in 10 years i should have a job of some sort... :lol:
and i might even have all my student loans paid off and have some disposable income...

and if i do have some money to play with, and if lexus comes out with a mileage hybrid instead of all the performance hybrids they're doing now, i want that.

whatever it is, it'll be a toyota or a lexus.