dharma girl wrote: Do any of you think we’ll get to the point where electric cars are a viable alternative?
I do. I know smaller EV’s are already out (See the Zap Xebra for the low end, and the tesla for the high end.) Toyota is working on a plug in prius – it will still have the combustion engine, but will go up to 60 miles on a charge and have photocells on the roof – so it can charge in the parking lot. (Great for SoCal in my opinion.)
In Europe the THINK EVs are being used by cities for the municipal vehicles. (I wish it wasn’t a privately held company, I’d buy stock!)
I think it’s a matter of time.
Hydrogen cell cars are available by lease in the LA area. There’s a radius to the fueling stations – so you pretty much have to live in Long Beach or the Valley. If they catch on, they might be made more widely available.
Seriously, if I was retired we would get a Xebra as our second car – since most of our errands are within 10 miles via surface streets. But that goes to the other thread about what “rich” is. I’m still a wage slave and we need two freeway legal cars.
