There are a ton’o people out there producing or playing with high performance EV’s. Not really that much of a challenge and also not that much to do with a “sustainable tranport future”.

The real EV challenge is the design and packaging of real world automobiles which provide the creature comforts, the range, the reliability, the PRICE POINT and the distribution and service network demanded by the consumer. We have the technology…what we don’t seem to have is the manufacturing and marketing smarts…and yes the balls to pull this off.

From what I can see our friends in East do…and they are, quietly, well on their way to solving this nut while we in the West play with hybrids, Tesla’s and the like, and with vehicles like the highly questionable Chevy volt (which appears to be well on its way to being a financial boon-doogle…which doesn’t surprise me at all).

I will await the arrival of INEXPENSIVE, functional EV’s from China or India or ?? before I add an electric vehicle to my rather expansive fleet of bicycles.

Anyways…have fun!