[SuziQ]

Hybrids are VERY expensive, because of those pesky batteries, huge amounts of weight to make those batteries and powerful enough electric motors, and the severe loss of efficiency trying to convert torque/shaft energy into electrical energy.

That's why folks are doing research to find ways of making batteries smaller and more powerful, and ways to make the cars run more efficiently. If they can do it to microprocessors and computers, why not batteries?

[RFEngineer]

"That's why folks are doing research to find ways of making batteries smaller and more powerful, and ways to make the cars run more efficiently. If they can do it to microprocessors and computers, why not batteries?"

Because batteries are not the same as microprocessors. Just wanting something is not the same as it being possible.

[Eaker]

That's why folks are doing research to find ways of making batteries smaller and more powerful, and ways to make the cars run more efficiently.

They are doing research to sell batteries and for no other reason. The results have only been incremental as new technology has to be purchased to use the new batteries which makes other divisions of the same companies happy.

The car companies don't want to anger the oil companies by making more efficient cars.

It is always about the money.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

We're talking Apples to Oranges here.

You probably do not understand the Laws of Physics. Nano technology, (Micro processors, etc,,,) is based on Quantum Physics, while Electrical Technology is based upon the first order of Physics.

The two do not mix much in the same way that DC and AC power do not mix. It all has to do with the nature of the flow of electrons.

In other words, we are limited to the number of elements that we can produce batteries with while there is no limit to what we can do with nano technology because they are not limited to elemental physics.