Even more fundamentally, the digital economy's infrastructure has advanced basic material science and classes of machine tools that have led directly to the new high-power electronics (enabling hybrids) and to big, cheap flat-panel, thin-film PVs (derived from the massive thin-film machines that make flat-panel-TVs).
Even as Ferrari and McLaren forge new territory with high-performance hybrids, plenty of examples of old-school power also will be on display at the Geneva Motor Show.