Ask yourself: If that car was available now, wouldn't you be afraid that you'd simply run out of power? You have a busy day ahead of you, and you find yourself driving an unusually long route without having your batteries fully charged. Then, like a toy car of a much smaller price, the thing dies on you.
Quite simply said, right now you can't really walk up to anyone's house or business and ask to plug in your car. In order to make these cars even feasible for the average person to want to use, there has to be some infrastructure changes. Right now, you can find gas stations EVERYWHERE so it's usually hard to actually run out of gasoline and be left on the side of the road. It happens, but with an electric car, you need some kind of charge station.
Like this article says, it's not as simple as just going wild and building charge stations. Things like this require money, serious amounts of money in order to create the necessary changes nationwide, or at least in highly populated areas.
Just a little food for thought. Honestly, even though an all electric car sounds really darn nice right about now, the hassle of owning one in our current situation could be enough to deter the average person.
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Your blog posts are very helpful and informative about the options that are out there! Speaking of electric cars, I find it very interesting that people think of electricity as fuel efficient and cost free to the environment and fail to realize that electricity comes from some of the biggest known pollutants power plants. I guess nothing is without cost huh?
ReplyDeleteThat's definitely true, and it gets even worse actually. To completely fix the problem, you have to both change the entire industrial infrastructure at the level of the consumers (charge stations etc for fuel alternatives) AND at the level of the suppliers.
ReplyDeleteMeaning it's double trouble, and it's something that's unfortunately going to take many, many years of research and then legislation to make it happen, if it does.