>fossil fuels not going anywhere
NO ONE "killed" the electric car - EVER
in the early days of the development of automobiles, electric vehicles and steam-powered vehicles, along ICE engines using fuels other than petro-based were ALL built and promoted by multiple groups. no one "killed" any of the competing technologies. THEY DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES. each was the victim of darwinian natural selection, and gasoline powered internal combustion engines survived to become the dominant technology, because it was inherently VASTLY superior than all the others, in terms of performance, practicality, safety, and sustainability. PERIOD. no other method of storing a protable energy source can come within an order of magnitude of gasoline, which packs a WHOPPING 20,000 kilojoules per pound, and yet is remarkably safe and robust. and yet, today's cars are STAGGERINGLY inefficient. about 99% of that whopping supply of energy exits the exhaust pipe as WASTE HEAT. you read right, 99% waste. if anyone TRULY cares about "reducing the carbon footprint" (an idiotic goal, but so popular i deign to mention it), they would be best served by finding ways to increase the efficiency of today's gasoline ICEs. OH WAIT… a myriad of ways already exist, from water injection (used by the US airforce in WWII planes) to vaporizing carburators, to more fringe ideas like passing the fuel thru electric and/or magnetic fields just before entering the engine. ALL of these methods have suffered from a TOTAL LACK of applied engineering development. probly 'cause OIL COMPANIES OWN CONTROLLING INTERESTS IN EVERY CAR MANUFACTURER ON THE PLANET. gee, ain't capitalism grand?