[zeestephen]

I am hoping for a company that will focus on selling electricity to people who buy electric cars.

Only one way to get that job done - fossil fuels and nuclear energy.

Great Britain and California and to some extent Germany are on the brink of rolling black outs because of their dependence on solar and wind.

Germany has temporarily postponed its electricity crisis by re-starting several coal generators.

In the meantime, Germans pay the highest electrical rates in the world.

Thanks, Merkel!

[SunkenCiv]

It’ll be a fine mess. However, the use of hydrocarbons to generate electricity via fuel cells is real, not a lab curiousity, and is distributable — that is, the generating capacity can be grafted into the grid near where the juice is to be used, like near the local substation, with just a natural gas line laid in to feed it. Easier to turn on and turn off to match loads.