[AmonAmarth]

Electric cars are still years away from being practical.

[bgill]

No sympathy here.

[foundedonpurpose]

Big paper weights.

[mylife]

All Bambi needed to do was skylift some solar panels in there.
Problems solved right?

[Cicero]

the storm has revealed the one major vulnerability

Correction: "Yet ANOTHER vulnerability."

[HereInTheHeartland]

Why can't they just drive them somewhere to charge them?

[DaxtonBrown]

I live in an area of flash floods where motorists are frequently trapped on top their car. Seeing that parking lot of Fiskers that exploded when submerged by Sandy has got to be an eye opener.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

That’s why every Pious...er...Prius should come with a bicycle taped to the roof.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Right Wing Assault]

“We will need to address the issue of electricity shortages if we want to have a growing share of EVs.”

You betcha! One way to start is to have the EPA accelerate the closing of those coal-fired electric plants they're planning to shut down. /s

[gorush]

[dgcoronado]

I think everyone should purchase what works for them. Also, I think that the government should not pick and choose the winners in business.

However, to add one small point on EV’s side... I think we are seeing that having no electricity is a problem for both types of vehicles. Gas pumps work on electricity also.

I’ll never get an EV, but no option is perfect.

[nascarnation]

Gasoline is tough to compete with.

If a R administration got it back in the $2/gallon range via increasing supply, it’s even more competitive.
If nat gas starts taking a decent slice of truck consumption, that’s another drag on oil prices.

I do forecast that a significant percent of golf carts will remain electric powered.

[entropy12]

Electric cars are NOT green!
They use electricity generated by a power plant nearby.
And 95% of power generation currently uses fossil fuels + Nuclear.

Wind power is also no good after a hurricane. They would be severely damaged by a direct hit. Another fact no one talks about.....more workers have died working on wind turbine towers than all the people killed in man made nuclear power accidents in the non-communist world.

[UCANSEE2]

Heck, all you need is one of these.... and lots of time.

[Average Al]

"Electric cars are still years away from being practical."

A steam car that burns trash, wood or coal sure would be. ;-)

[steve86]

I guess you can’t carry electricity in a five gallon can.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Shucks. And I was hoping that they were going to come out with a pink Energizer Bunny Special Edition. LOL!

[TXnMA]

In MA, when storms dropped pine trees and big limbs on power lines and across many folks' drives, the most frustrated folks were those with trees down on their house or across their drive -- and who owned electric chain saws!! '-)

[SkyPilot]

The Doltswagen

[American Constitutionalist]

( * ChargePoint, which runs one of the largest public charge station networks in the area affected by Sandy did not respond to requests from FoxNews.com to discuss it's contingency plans. * )

What's that I hear you say Al Gore ? it's a what ? " Inconvenient truth "

Of course these Greenies had nothing to say and would not respond to requests from FOX NEWS.