More bad news about electric drive autos...

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10. It is ALL about battery technology

The big problem is that advances in battery technology are incremental, not revolutionary. This is just the way things work in science sometimes and as far as batteries are concerned, things are not likely to change. The only major recent advances involve nano technologies. Unfortunately, those have not advanced sufficiently to make them economical. I. E., What use is a battery that provides 250 miles on a charge if it costs thousands of dollars and can only be recharged 100 times?

That is a real problem for electric cars. The batteries. Right now, it's Li-Ion. We need something better and less expensive.

Only then will electric card have a real chance. That's too damned bad.