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Nothing stays the same. Big surprise to you, no doubt.

Electric car technology hasn’t really changed since the turn of the century. I mean to say, it hasn’t changed since the turn of the PREVIOUS century.

Alright, we’ve got a lot more drainage devices. In the early 1900s, they didn’t have electric windows, MP3 Players and what-not.

For some odd reason, the smart money went with the internal combustion engine. That’s the are smart investors figured they could make profits and gains.

They didn’t have the opportunity to stick their filthy paws in the taxpayers pockets. I guess you have an advantage that they lacked.

For some odd reason, the smart money went with the internal combustion engine.

Well sure, the insiders saw a good thing, they got super rich...They BS'd the A-rabs until they got smart.

The EC engine works great, but things are changing. Ya think people are going to sucking up gasoline to commute to work 300 years from now? Get freaking real.

Technology is changing. Ya better deal with it.

Electric car technology hasn’t really changed since the turn of the century. I mean to say, it hasn’t changed since the turn of the PREVIOUS century.

The technologies actually have evolved, but unfortunately the cost / benefit equation has improved very little if at all. It was interesting that the author started the article discussing the whizzbang control screen. I believe if the government is spending hundreds of millions of our tax dollars... they ought to be concentrating on basic transportation not super expensive play things.

When we finally do get to the point where hydrocarbon based fuel sources actually do start to get prohibitively expensive... it is not too difficult to imagine people switching over to glorified golf carts to commute and run their errands. That will be far enough in the future that the Tesla vehicles will probably be just a footnote in the annals of government waste records.

We currently do not have the power generation facilities or the grid to support such a transition. That is where it would make sense to spend the money. I don't see electric utility companies and golf cart manufacturing companies currently getting huge subsidies. That is because in our system when companies turn out useful products they don't need giant governement subsidies.