Still a clueless retard I see. Some things never change......"you just can't fix 'stupid'".....but no matter what nonsense the retards and shills for the fossil fuel industry brainlessly proclaim, the kind of cars most people will be driving inside of ten years is going to change radically, primarily in the direction of more pure electric vehicles. Many of which, BTW, in many areas of the world, will almost certainly be getting most or all of their power from very 'local' sources, like home and garage top solar and/or wind generation and neighborhood and apartment building energy co-ops. The new, much more powerful, much cheaper and much longer lasting solid state lithium-metal-polymer batteries will do more than just enable long distance EVs, they will also allow people with solar and wind generators to easily and cheaply store all of the energy they generate instead of having to dump the excess (if they're lucky, into the grid on reverse metering), allowing them to build up much larger reserves for use at night or on cloudy days. Of course, solar Photo-Voltaic materials, both panels and thin film, are both getting much cheaper and more efficient, and wind generators are getting cheaper and more efficient too. With grid power that is tied to oil, gas and coal on an upward price spiral, more and more people are going to want the kind of energy independence that renewables will offer as the price of PV and wind drops and the new battery technology makes larger scale energy storage cheap and easy. For people who don't drive much, their electric vehicle may serve as one of their main solar/wind energy storage devices that feed power to the house at night or low wind times.
ROTFLMAO......too, too funny....one of the most reality challenged retards on here wants to talk about "Realville".....LOLOLOLOLOLOL.....In Realville though, the advent of the EC is not in question from anybody...........but the implication made by the green radicals that we are months away from everybody driving EC's is scary naive...............like the advances in battery technology and then briniging it to market in any meaningful way is right there on the horizon.
In Realville...........its not........its decades away. Why? Because thats how the markets work and far left guys dont understand markets. Never have. These people never give it a second thought that the internal combution engine market will adapt with their own technological advances perpetuating the fucked up economy of scale for the EC. ............The far left guys think that the battery makers are develping this technology because they care about the environment. And its like from their perspective, the internal combustion engine doesnt exist and these folks are going to lay down and just let the EC take over for the betterment of the planet!!And what of the logistics of powering up? To the green left, its not even considered that grids carry a price tag.
In Realville, the grand design is far, far more complicated than wishing for something based upon, ummm.........wishful thinking. Green leaning people will always be OK with paying a premium to be able to drive an electric car. But the majority?For most people, economics and sound reason trump idealism.
But that is why skooks is around here...........to bring it all back to Realville when wishful thiinking becomes k00k. To many on the far left.............Realville sucks
The Future Of Electric Vehicles: Who? Where? When? How Much? How Many? | The Truth About Cars
Preparing For The Electric Car Future - Forbes.com
From your first (year old) article cited which is from an automobile blog by a former rock and roll journalist who now has an advertising agency that works for Volkswagon:
"There is another thought that crosses my mind when I write about predictions. Before the IBM PC was launched in 1981, IBM had done extensive studies. The overall market for such a device was seen limited to 5,000. I kid you not. 5,000 pieces total. My agency had the European account for IBM, and I had their data. We all know how that worked out."
From your two year old second article cited from Forbes that is all about "How companies can win from the transition to electric vehicles" and that doesn't dispute the fact that electrics vehicles are the wave of the future: "The advent of the electric car is no longer in question--only the timetable is."
What you and other writers seem incapable of comprehending is that new battery technology is a game changer in the EV market. Once EV's can go 400 to 600 miles on a single charge that takes only minutes and the batteries last longer than the vehicle and cost less than $1500, the difference in running costs and maintenance between EVs and IC engine cars will be so great that everybody is going to want an pure electric vehicle. When will that happen? Probably within the next three or four years. How much will gas cost by then? It's $4.20 now where I live and will probably be over 6 bucks a gallon by then.
You can add classless and juvenile ass as well to your CV. As far as being as shill for the oil industry I can safely say it's you bucko. They are heavily invested in the green fraud. Where else can they make billions of dollars for merely pushing paper from one desk to another.
