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I say just live for today, enjoy your Z now and don't worry about it not keeping up with other brands, because pure electric motivation is coming quick...
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Coming...its here! The fastest cars on and off track are all hybrids or electric powered and have been for a few years now.
Electric will never fully replace I.C.E's, but they will replace a fair amount of the market. Reducing C02 emissions in city areas has massive economic implications for everyone, never mind on a social level. More than likely, the remaining exotic sports cars will all be hybrids at the very least by 2025. I find this to be a better overall package anyways.
If Nissan was serious about replacing all its normal ecobox cars with i.c.e's with electric motors, they need to do it now. My cousin bought a POS versa a few years ago and the engine is absolute dog schit and its falling apart. She doesn't know a single thing about car maintenance or engines, and it's not just her. There are several people like her that need a simple electric car for commuting with no hassle maintenance. The only remaining caveat about electric cars now is range and charge time compared to refueling. This isn't even really a problem considering you can technically charge a battery anywhere.
I'd love to see Nissan/Infiniti replace all these boring cheap I4 engines with electric motors, as long as the produce a bullet proof sport engine for the remaining sport cars like the Z and Gt-r.
Allow us petrolheads to have the pure sport engines at a lower cost instead of these half-arsed engines that are adopted over several chassis.