I WANT electric vehicles or hybrids to succeed. It IS true, that we can’t go on like this forever. 150 years from now, people will be driving electric vehicles powered from fusion or thorium based power plants or super-efficient solar power systems, or they will be walking and foraging from area to area. The RIGHT way for the government to promote this is by putting money into basic research and science, not in funding manufacturing plants for cronies that produce products that just don’t work very well.
It’s annoying that the EPA won’t let the best possible hybrid system, diesel-electric (ask people who build and use locomotives), operate here. They do in Europe.
I below people will still be discussing peak oil 150 years from now.
ALL of the wasted money for these “new batteries” should have gone to perfectng fuel—cells....as they COULD become the “dream power” source——with a little more work.
Basically fueled JUST like a gas car.
No real “range limit” since one could get more “fuel” whenever the “fuel tank” (methanol, most likely) gets low.
Since a fuel—cell does not “store anything”, but makes it “on the fly”,(from air and a hydrogen-rich fuel source), there is not as much as an explosion risk.
All one would need in a 50kw/h. or so fuel—cell, fueled by maybe 10 gallons for methanol, maybe a 5kw/h lithium battery pack for acceleration good enough for maybe 8 miles flat—out or so(since the fuel cell could not(at this time anyway),provide “surge power”) with a 200HP. or so motor in as 3000Lb car—THAT might be NICE!!
Fuel cells are the answer...IMHO.