Clayton Cramer
2011-07-01 14:16:14
Electric vehicles certainly were impractical a century ago because of the low energy density of batteries, and they may still be impractical for that reason–all the more reason to let the market (and not a subsidized market) decide. Still, if someone figures out how to make this work, it would be very good indeed. Electric motors are more of a leap up from gasoline engines in reliability and maintenance than gasoline engines were from steam engines.
