[RegulatorCountry]

I’ve never understood the almost automatic disapproval many FReepers exhibit regarding electric vehicles or even gas/electric hybrids.

Having some percentage of vehicles on the road relying on a different energy source is a good thing. It’s that much closer to being able to tell the mullahs to kiss off.

It’s a nuclear powered car. Or coal, or hydroelectric.

So, it’s expensive. New tech nearly always is. That will change over time with broader adoption, economies of scale and further advances.

They’ll likely always be more urban but that’s OK by me.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“I’ve never understood the almost automatic disapproval many FReepers exhibit regarding electric vehicles or even gas/electric hybrids.”
Perhaps you fail to appreciate the disdain many conservatives have for ideas that are ginned up as an excuse to promote the “green” agenda, which basically is based on propaganda and designed to turn us back into a pre-industrial society? If “green” is about good energy vs “bad” energy, why are they desperately trying to destroy hydroelectric generation capacity? Don't follow the hype. Look into the “who” behind the propaganda. Even the founder of Greenpeace left because he recognized the “true” agenda of the lefties that have taken control.

[zeugma]

I’ve never understood the almost automatic disapproval many FReepers exhibit regarding electric vehicles or even gas/electric hybrids.

I think it's because electric cars are being purchased with our tax money.

Personally, I think a hybrid gas/electric car makes a lot of sense. Trouble is, batteries still suck. I'm still wondering why there isn't a diesel/electric hybrid out there, other than locamotives. From what I understand the watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) disdain diesel, because it's not "clean". I would think it would make a lot of sense to set up a diesel engine as your generator, because they will run nearly forever.

[asinclair]

So, it’s expensive. New tech nearly always is. That will change over time with broader adoption, economies of scale and further advances.

Yeah, think radio-telephones and their growth over 50 years. At one time, the unit was thousands of dollars plus obscene air-time costs, so you had to justify the purchase and the use of the service with the money you save being in contact. I remember one radio reporter who justified the expense by the number of news scoops he picked up because his station could let him know now of a breaking event, rather than the next time he checked in. Newspaper reports in that town hated him.

Now radio-telephones (you know them better as cell phones now) are so cheap the government is giving them away.

Oh, wait...