They're far from maxed out, they're being hampered. What they're running into is your potato's leadershit over regulating an industry to meat illegal EPA laws (they're not regulations, they're illegal laws) for efficiency and emissions.So again, wheres the engineers squeezing power and efficiency if the beginning and ending are pretty much the exact same outcome?
The standard ICE vehicle is maxed out on this hence the transition to Turbos and Hybrids. All roads lead to BEV.
Turbos are a natural progression in ICE power and efficiency. Teslas aren't running Ni-Cad batteries, are they? Diesels are virtually all turbos, and have been for the last two decades. Hybrids are actually a half smart means of transportation, I mean, locomotives are hybrids in a way because that diesel is nothing more than a generator providing electricity to electric traction motors. It works,
You live in a urban bubble and cannot realize or fathom that the vast majority of drivers in the world cannot have their driving needs met by BEVs. You proclaim they're the only way of the future, but your blinders are on so tight you cannot even see they don't work for a majority of people or businesses in our own country. Step outside our borders and the numbers grow by magnitudes.
Or you're gaslighting, which is nothing more than a nice way of calling you a fucking liar.