re: #241 GeneJockey

I dunno. I’m more in favor of the Volt’s model, since, for example, if I owned one, I’d almost never need to do anything but charge it every night, but if I needed to go farther, I would not need to worry about finding a charging station and waiting the requisite time. I think the future ultimately belongs to whatever technology can take over seamlessly.

But I gotta tell you - seeing all the Tesla Model S’s on the Peninsula is pretty cool!

Thing about hybrids is that it’s neither a good gasoline-powered car or a good electric car. Whether you’re driving on electric or gasoline, you’re dragging along extra weight, whether it be the gas engine when running on battery alone or all the batteries when driving it as a hybrid. It’s training wheels, ones that give the sense that electric cars can’t work unless there’s a gas engine to kick in when the batteries run out.