electric cars also require massive federal subsidies to be competitive with internal combustion engine cars. big federal rebate for each car sold, big federal subsidies for research for battery techonology & infrastructure, etc. and, re: efficiency and pollution savings, the reality is that, after you measure the cost/pollution of electrical power generation, the added cost/pollution of manufacturing electric wehicles, and the added cost/pollution of battery disposal, it's really a wash.
no doubt, electric cars are coming - gas is only going to go up in price, as it becomes scarcer and scarcer. but don't kid yourselves, electric cars ain't no panacea.
doug s.
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.
