Electric vehicles are both coming and here to stay. Even with current politics getting in the way of advancements through the cuts in subsidies and research into those technologies, multi-billion-dollar companies aren't going to put away the countless millions they've spent on research and development on the technologies, so we'll continue to press forward.
And you've seen that in the likes of Can-Am's EV ATV, Royal Enfield's upcoming electric motorcycles, and Polaris' EV Rangers. As well as the company's patents for EV everything. The future waits for no one man.
But there's a glut of gasoline-powered powersport vehicles that still remain in our hands, on the road, and on the trails. And with that electric future fast approaching—still measured in decades, for me—what happens when oil and gasoline are no more? What happens to all our machines once the tap runs dry or we mandate our way out of the global warming crisis? We're still going to want to blaze across landscapes and dunes to our heart's content. But what do we do if we can't fill our tanks?