"If you think that we are at the pinnacle of transportation technology, I'm not the one to tell you that you are wrong but history tends to argue against you."
Transportation? no. Fuels? petroleum provides about the optimal mix of volatility and energy density, so I'd say we've gotten pretty much as close to the pinnacle as chemistry can provide......but you never know.
I'm not arguing about the fuel. I'm a big believer in hydrogen fuel, especially when stabilized by multiple carbon bonds.
You don't believe in electric cars, how about if it were powered by a 80 kW fuel reactor able to swollow gasoline, ethanol, liquified coal or even bio-oil running at 70% effiency? The current technology is the steam engine of old. It is needlessly complex, expensive, heavy and inefficient. Change is coming, I just hope I still have a driver's liscence.