Electric cars are a good promise and will work well for commuting (as would velomobiles at lower impact, lower size requirement and provides some exercise – they’re enclosed recumbent bicycles, generally with 3 wheels, some with electric assist). But they won’t work for everything, and natural gas will help for some situations, but we need a diversity of approaches because no one approach can completely replace petroleum.

I find it odd that hybridcars.com deliberately wants to trash these well-meaning approaches to solving problems, and several of these do have merits. I would expect this negativity at some hot-rod or closed-minded nationalistic website, not one devoted to green car technology.

At the moment MY CHOICE IS WARREN BUFFET, what you says about safety crash is b.shit, it can be and will be solved during next year.

J-bob you got it right! The only thing I would say is that the U.S needs at least one car producer that can produce for a mass EV market. I would say some of these ideas are short-term business interests with major long term implications. Glad to see that this is spelled out in the article despite many who dislike hearing about long term consequences of some green schemes.

Simply put, the Asian and Indian markets are going to provide a financial bonanza for Buffet if these cars take off. Since they do not have as stringent crash test requirements in these countries, these cars are going to potentially sell like hotcakes.

The US doesn’t even need to enter the equation.