Why electric cars will never be a big thing:

[diane in sf]

2. There are a lot of unfounded assumptions in this post:

Electric cars can now get 200+ miles to the charge. One simply has to come home and plug it in. Most people drive about 11 miles to work. The majority of people would find this range meets their needs.

Most power companies have a problem of surplus night time power generation. So cars being plugged in at night is a solution to this problem.

People will pay around 1/3rd of what they pay for gasoline for electric power to charge the car. And the cars are much cheaper to maintain than internal combustion cars. Many people will be adding solar panels with power storage to their roofs as solar and batteries become ever cheaper. So this starts to ease potential grid problems.

Nuclear power is one of the most expensive ways to generate electricity. Wind, solar, efficiency, and natural gas are all cheaper and less toxic. Coal and nukes are getting bypassed in spot markets because they are much more expensive than the cleaner power sources, which is making them unprofitable. Economic forces are killing coal and nukes, not environmentalists.