"We can break our dependence on oil…and become the first
country to have one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.”
President Obama said this in his January 2011 State of the Union
address. But right now there are less than
180,000 plug-ins on U.S. roads today. ( Worldwide, there are only
400,000.) Less than 70,000 Leafs, 71,00 Volts. And Fisker is bankrupt.
Treason? Gridlock?
All
the hope and subsidies in the world cannot overcome the physics of
energy density: Hydrocarbons--oil--store 40X the energy pound for pound
than does the electrochemistry of batteries. The engine-battery system
of a Leaf is 1000 pounds more than the engine+gas tank of a Mustang. And
the Mustang can run all day.
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