Nope, they won't come, they'll be either completely flat & dead like a salted fish on their half way here. Or the driver will simply refuse to come, because it's out of range, and fast charging ruins those expensive batteries, everybody knows that.
Electric cars can become a very nice short range transport if the owner work in the local post office or supermarket, in a very small town, very close to his home, and all of his friends live very near. . .Or, i think if they change all city buses and taxies to electric, it'll also work out nicely . But as a convenient personal/family transport, it simply wouldn't suffice, it's too complicated to use, and will cost more in a long term.
And i wonder why car manufacturers love to put an 'i' before the names of their electric and electro-petro mutant cars. Maybe it's a sign of caution, a warning, 'i' = incompetent. Warning, you are buying the incompetent ill fated cousin of the car family, for a higher price.
simply not based in facts. If electric propulsion systems are just a flash in the pan than
why is every major automobile manufacturer working on at least one electric vehicle as we speak?
Of course subsities are required for any new system that requires massive inferstructure. This is no different than any other country wide program: Oil/gas, farm/food, healthcare, current electrical grid and transit. Mabey un-like the gas conglomerates when electric cars stand on there own four wheels we can remove the tax payers helpful push.
Inconveinient is going to a gas station when ever you need to fill up. with electric cars that is not nessesary we wont drive untill empty we will always start full and recharge every nite, 78% of the U.S driving public travels less than 40 miles a day 90% less than 80 miles and 80% of families are 2 car owners. need to go more than 100 miles, take the other car it is simple math!
The Tesla s loaded model has a range of just over 300 miles, and like VCR's, CD players, cell phones, flat screen tv's and all other technologies the prices will fall and ranges will increase as people adopt these new Better, quicker, cleaner automobiles.
Litheum Ion battery technologies are on the brisk of explosion with the perfection of the LI-air battery, energy density levels are expected to be 4 to 8 times that of dissel fuel!
In the Pacific Northwest, 80% of our energy comes from clean energy sources. Even in States where the predominance of power is generated by dirty coal, electric cars are cleaner because they are more efficiant at converting energy (85% compared to 30%)than their ICE equivilants. Many families with Nissan Leafs and Chevy Volts already power there cars using garage solar systems (a 5000 watt aray cost between $8000 and $10000 and are warrentied for 20 years. The average american will own 4 cars in that period.) with the price of gas skyrocketing over the past 10 years it is easy to see the price levels rapidly approching an equlibrium.
This web site is for a lot of us is about technologies and products that lead us to better listining, it suprisses me to see that the quest for technologie in one feild is not mannifested in another. The fact is that the internal combustion engine is an archaen obsolete dirty mechanism that we have tweeked the last bit of life out of, They have a poor tork curve, between 100 and 300 moving parts, require massive amounts of maintinance, guzzel gas and require antifreese,oil and a transmision not to mention the small cost of invading the contries that sit on top of our oil!
You threw out your 8 track player a long time ago, now break your addiction to oil, test drive a Leaf, Volt ,Tesla or the 2012 Ford Focas electric and see if it will fit your life style. If you are like 90% of the country it probably will.
Most of the anti electric car sentimate comes from a lack of knowledge, and a missunderstanding of the facts. If you are interested in informing yourself with the truth
www.pluginamerica.org has a wounderfull pros and cons section of their web site along with a list of all current and soon to be available electric cars and all the information you could ever desire.
My dream car is the Future Tesla suv or mabey the 2012 Toyota Rav 4-E, you say they are too expesive but I argue they are lot cheeper than most of the dream cars on this list and with a carport top solar charging system a lot cleaner too.