Hydrogen! The auto industry is already looking past electric.
Look at market signals and the faltering focus on electric, despite massive efforts to sell electric cars by the industry. Nissan, who has taken the biggest stab at electric, is already (publicly) licking its wounds from its $5B gamble.
Tesla’s making a brave and extremely innovative foray, I will certainly give them that. But with the lack of electric traction amidst $4+ gas (2x since 2008) and the promise of hydrogen...I’d say the odds are against them. Hybrids will probably be the bridge to something else.
> Hydrogen! The auto industry is already looking past electric.
At the moment the practical problems with hydrogen are worse than those involving electricity storage. There are many problems with the electric vehicle scheme, but on the plus side, there's already an electric infrastructure that can be used to charge the vehicles. There's no hydrogen infrastructure, it would have to be built.
This may all change in the long term, and hydrogen might end up being a much better solution, but the immediate problems are severe.
Look at market signals and the faltering focus on electric, despite massive efforts to sell electric cars by the industry. Nissan, who has taken the biggest stab at electric, is already (publicly) licking its wounds from its $5B gamble.
That's just one example from “Electric cars head toward another dead end”: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/04/us-autos-electric-...
Tesla’s making a brave and extremely innovative foray, I will certainly give them that. But with the lack of electric traction amidst $4+ gas (2x since 2008) and the promise of hydrogen...I’d say the odds are against them. Hybrids will probably be the bridge to something else.
Tesla could end up being Betamax.