More bad news about electric drive autos...

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19. What are talking about here?

I stand with kristopher! A totally electrical vehicle is the most efficient vehicle for moving people on the road (possibly next to an AmTrak locomotive).

For a plug-in hybrid, the cheapest miles per gallon are by far the battery charge off the electrical grid, regardless how the electricity is generated. Of course, we hope it would all be solar, wind, tide, geothermal, etc. Yes, coal sucks. But natural gas is fairly clean and the US seems to have a lot of it, without fracking. If we convert coal to nat gas and move to non carbon emitting sources as we can, there is no reason why the efficiencies of electric vehicles could be achieved.

Your post seems to assume that things will remain static.

As I wrote in another post here, the main problems with EVs is the batteries. Hopefully some bright people will come up with a technology which is inexpensive to mass produce and which gives sufficient charge capacity to be practical. Fast charging would be nice, too.

In the meantime, these new electric vehicles are precisely what the auto mfgers should be doing. Yes, the market is small, and yes, they are expensive, but what would you have Detroit, Tokyo, and Souel do? Keep producing gas guzzling SVU's?

Frankly, I hope they make a fortune on their EVs.