re: #291 kirkspencer

Ah, but that’s a chicken-egg argument that in the end is false. Did the automobile have to await deployment of a system of gas stations?

If the batteries improve (and I hold that to be the critical technology), then we’ll see automobiles built to challenge gasoline cars. You’ll see a temporary industry in ‘portable chargers’ that connect between standard household (110) voltage and the car, and another in home modifications to allow full-power relatively rapid charging. Stations already existing would create ‘electric pumps’ fairly quickly - basically a high voltage outlet with appropriate connector and a meter.

I really don’t think the infrastructure argument stands. If the cars are made, people will be glad to take money to keep them going.

If they can offer them with built-in adapters so folks can just plug the car into a standard outlet, then people will buy them so long as they perform well at a reasonable cost.