How will electrification of vehicles affect the engineers working on exhaust systems? Engines? Diesel exhaust fluids or Adblue systems?
Electric and plug-in hybrid cars also aren't as "green" as they appear. While these cars produce less or no emissions, they are run on power from fossil fuels. Manufacturing batteries and electric motors also takes up quite a lot of energy.
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Hopefully, these engineers are going to develop things, we don't even have a name for, yet. And probably they'll work together with electrical engineers, civil engineers and maybe even cultural anthropologists.
Well, you know, even an electric car has to have a drivetrain, steering, braking system, and so on. The car is still a mechanical device. Sure, some techniques used today won't be used in the future, but then, is that not what we were always taught in engineering school? How many EEs have to design circuits with vacuum tubes these days? How many EEs, as recently as 45 years ago, had to worry about digital electronics or cyber security?
That's why we were always taught that school primarily teaches us how to learn. Other than that, what we learned in school would be obsolete in a matter of just a few years. Very true!
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