That's the impression you get walking around Germany's newest car show, the IAA Mobility in Munich (Sept 7 to 12), a rebooted version of dated horsepower parade of the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Almost all the cars that you can see here - and not only the newly unveiled models - run on battery power. If there is a combustion engine here, it's usually a hybrid.
This is particularly clear at the Mercedes stand, where the German luxury manufacturer has presented half a dozen new electric cars.
The only vehicles to have an actual exhaust were model cars in a showcase next to the entrance. Everything else was emissions free.
The electric range at Daimler now runs from the mid-range Mercedes EQE (a somewhat more down-to-earth and likely more affordable alternative to the EQS) to a near-production study of a Smart SUV (with an almost gigantic 4.20 metres by Smart standards) set to replace the Forfour and Fortwo, and on to the EQS SUV (bringing the electric approach to the Maybach brand).
Even the G-Class, as the Concept EQG, is getting in the mood for the new era.
The Mercedes factory tuners at AMG might usually have been allowed to break ranks, but their team is now showing their first electric car for series production. The EQA 53 has 761hp, while the GT four-door becomes a plug-in hybrid with up to 843hp.
Audi is going a little further in its outlook and with its Grandsphere concept it's doubling up with a second mobility trend: autonomous driving.
Like the prototypes of the competition, this study for the upcoming A8 is designed for so-called Level-4 driving, the second-highest level of autonomy.
Above all, the study questions the traditional car interior. Forget that there's a 721hp electric motor with a range of more than 600km. Because you'll be too busy admiring the cockpit.
At the touch of a button, the cockpit disappears into the dashboard, making room for what feels like a digital room. This is not a distant vision, says design chief Marc Lichte: "We will see 80 per cent of it again in our upcoming flagship in three or four years."
Other brands want to finally bring electric mobility to the masses. VW and the SEAT subsidiary Cupra, for example, are giving a first glimpse of a joint electric small car with two very different concepts.
A good 4 metres long, it promises e-mobility for beginners and a range of around 400km.
However, when it comes onto the market in four years' time at prices starting at around 20,000 euros, it will probably be neither a four-door crossover with a soft top like VW's ID Life, nor a city runabout with 234hp like the UrbanRebell from VW's Spanish sister.
The Megane E-Tech, which is located one hall further on at Renault, leaves less room for interpretation: initially built as an alternative (and not as a replacement) to the conventional Megane, it will compete against the models from the VW group in the first half of 2022 as a compact electric with a range of significantly more than 400km, says company boss Luca de Meo.
In contrast, trade fair premieres such as the Kia Sportage or the VW Multivan seem almost old-fashioned. Yet these two models also have a plug and are on stage at least as plug-in models.
In a telling sign of the world's mobility trends, bicycle manufacturers fare greater in number that carmakers at this event, despite the German acronym IAA standing for International Automobile Exhibition.
Meanwhile niche brands like Microlino or ACM are pushing into the gap between cars and motorbikes with tiny vehicles that can slip into the smallest of parking spaces.
Other new car brands are also mingling with the trade fair programme in Munich, for example Chinese suppliers such as Wey with the electric upper-class SUV Coffee 01 or Ora with the retro small car Cat.
Over at BMW, not only emissions but sustainability is at the forefront, with the i Vision Circular concept.
This electric small car, a vision for the year 2040, is not only made almost entirely of recycled material, but can also be completely recycled again at some point.
Instead of going into the museum, it will go into the bin - and thus become the raw material for its successor.
Even motorsport is changing shape: Porsche is displaying its Mission R. Just as the Mission E became the Porsche Taycan two years ago, the electric racing car also has what it takes for series production, say its makers.
By the middle of the decade, it should inspire a new racing car and then also a road model.
Porsche, on the other hand, is not talking about the new 911 GTS, just as Audi is not talking about the RS3 or VW about the small Taigun off-road vehicle.
"There's no space on the stage this year for anything without a plug," one VW spokesman told us.
Of course, Mercedes, BMW & Co also know that they still have to sell a lot of cars with internal combustion engines to be able to afford the electric cars in the programme.
And nobody can pretend that the car industry's massive carbon footprint and contribution to climate change is going to disappear overnight.
But at least at this car show, exhaust pipes are hardly to be seen.
