Reply #30: I think is more a case of people who do not understand the technology pushing it before it is ready

[Solo_in_MD]

Electric transportation has some advantages and some drawbacks. They are being worked. People with tinfoil hairdos will tell you that the gas companies have stopped anything that would have reduced the need for oil, but then again, they have the shiny side out...

Batteries/storage is the key. Low cost, low weight, high capacity, long life, and clean to make and recycle, long life are some of the features being worked.

I tend to believe in the free market. Individuals and small companies would love to become bigger companies by inventing things that make this transition possible. We need to invest and nurture it, but the day when we can call go electric is not yet here.

If anyone missed it, Honda is dropping their hybrid Accord model...they are saying the technology is not yet ready for a car of that size. There is a clue there.