Why electric cars will never be a big thing:

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5. Never say never...

The future will bring a lot of changes. One change might be forgetting about car ownership and buying into a system of self-driving electric cars on special roadways, or at least lanes. Press an app on your phone, and a fully charged car shows up.

Better batteries and chargers are on the horizon, and who drives 500 miles without stopping anyway? Interchangeable battery packs have been designed, and might become reality. And the Chevy Volt is available today as a decent solution. Others are making similar similar plug-in hybrids.

Kids today aren't hung up on cars like we were. Many see them as expensive, clumsy things that are becoming more of a hindrance than a help in daily life. When I lived in Manhattan, one of the things I appreciated was getting rid of the damn car. Once a month or so that I really needed one, renting one takes minutes.