Wolfgang Froehlich , Head of Research & Development at BMW does not expect electric vehicles to reach 10 % of the new car market until 2025 at the very earliest . Fröhlich differs with many autonomous driving proponents who believe that technology such as this will enable accident-free driving. He told Engineering News that internal combustion engines will still be around 60 years from now and so his company must continue to develop models based on them . Furthermore , while he agrees that power density will increase , he does not believe that battery costs will decline as much as is currently being predicted . Lastly , despite Tesla being in headlines recently for its Autopilot software , he expects true autonomous driving is at least a decade away .
Wolfgang Froehlich , Head of Research & Development at BMW does not expect electric vehicles to reach 10 % of the new car market until 2025 at the very earliest . He told Engineering News that internal combustion engines will still be around 60 years from now and so his company must continue to develop models based on them . Furthermore , while he agrees that power density will increase , he does not believe that battery costs will decline as much as is currently being predicted . Lastly , despite Tesla being in headlines recently for its Autopilot software , he expects true autonomous driving is at least a decade away .