[subterfuge]

The big prize is autonomous vehicles. Doesn’t have to be electric vehicles either.

[TheDandyMan]

Electric is pointless at the moment because it contradicts the point of why people want electric in the first place (besides those who just want to save money on gas and have a place to plug in where they aren’t paying the electricity bill). They think they’re being ecologically responsible by not using fossil fuels, and then they plug their car into a grid that is powered by coal-burning plants.

Once carbon is taken out of the energy equation electric cars would make sense. But even if renewable gets to that point for use, what’s the impact, long-term, of manufacturing and disposing of solar panels for example? I’m not a scientist or an engineer and I have no idea, but I would guess it might end up being a problem eventually.