Editorials: July 2008 Archives
Big news! U.S. presidential candidates Barak Obama and John McCain are talking about
EVs. Finally, American politicians, corporate executives and grassroots advocates all seem to agree that powering cars from
clean, affordable and domestic electricity makes sense. However, politicians have
talked about electric
vehicles before and in the past, the talk did not translate into
government support for practical technologies. Will things be
different this time? Are the candidates finally committed to electric
vehicles? Or are they merely paying lip service to EV advocates?
Major news keeps buzzing about Hydrogen, Flex-fuel, E85/Ethanol, Bio-Diesel and other alternative energies but when it comes down to it, I believe that only the least common denominator will be able to survive in a world of constantly changing energy sources and that thing is called electricity.
Does anyone remember natural gas lighting in houses? How about oil? They were once a big hit, just like our oil-based engines in our cars are today. They went away for one simple reason. It's easier to convert many sources from many locations into electricity and distribute via wiring than it is to try to have competing fossil-fuel based systems in different houses. I believe the current paradigm of personal transportation is much like this.
Does anyone remember natural gas lighting in houses? How about oil? They were once a big hit, just like our oil-based engines in our cars are today. They went away for one simple reason. It's easier to convert many sources from many locations into electricity and distribute via wiring than it is to try to have competing fossil-fuel based systems in different houses. I believe the current paradigm of personal transportation is much like this.
Continue reading Electric Cars are the way of the Future.
