You can blow all sorts of pink smoke all over electric cars and fill the public's ears with bullsh!t, but the inescapable facts remain that the batteries do not have the capacity to do anything except short commuter runs, and that they take a long time to recharge. Not to mention that the electric generation capacity doesn't have enough reserves to handle any serious numbers of the tax wasters
I have a cordless electric string trimmer with a NiCad battery. It's the most fantastic thing in the world. It starts at the touch of a button; it runs completely clean and virtually without noise. There's only one thing wrong with it, and that is, it doesn't work. Apart from that, I love it.
“Dunno what the author was smoking, but I don’t want any. Someone this delusional may never go back to reality.”
Well, I’m an IC engine guy, and I live over the hill to the east of the Tesla Plant. Where I live, there are a lot of Tesla’s, and with 200-300 mile range, they are an excellent executive “commute” vehicle with the Silicon Valley less than 40 miles away, so they do make a lot of sense in this environment. And from a fit and finish standpoint, they make German “luxury cars” look like crap. As some have pointed out though, the real issue is the availability of “clean” electric power. If we had stayed with nuclear energy generation, electic cars wouid make a whole lot more sense. As it stands they are about as polluting and “energy efficient” as IC engined cars today.