More bad news about electric drive autos...

[KurtNYC]

4. 111 years and counting

Edison did not invent the light bulb -- only the threaded base -- but he gets credit for that and many other "inventions" because Edison leveraged patent laws and marketing to the extreme.

Like many of the inventions depicted in the fanciful and inspiring drawings of Leonardo DaVinci, the "emissionless" electric car remains a fantastic dream 111 years after Edison hyped it.

Nothing green about the production and disposal of the millions of large batteries that would go into vehicles and last 7 years before needing a permanent landfill home. Nothing green about the inefficiencies of generating grid-based electricity and then wasting much of it charging batteries. Nothing green about planning a future that is still based on commuting in personal vehicles weighing 2000+ pounds each and replacing them every 7 years.

When they market an ultra-light solar powered electric vehicle I may be interested but the electric car has been a tail-pipe dream for 111 years and the wait ain't over yet.