Posts by Smita

@mikeymartin: I agree that your vision of the future is a possibility. My take in the article is on the current scenario with the current crop of electric cars. In the future, I fully expect we'll have not only cheaper and more...

@Cello Mom Cars   Had a chance to ride the Shinkansen this year. Amazing. My attempts at video recording the sound and fury of the trains going by were an exercise in futility. They simply explode upon the scene and go by at...

@Cello Mom Cars   Had a chance to ride the Shinkansen this year. Amazing. My attempts at video recording the sound and fury of the trains going by were an exercise in futility. They simply explode upon the scene and go by at...

@Holleman:   Re #1 -- I would think emissions at a power plant would be more localized than auto emissions. One could argue that auto emissions are in more populated areas, and power plants are often located in less populated...

The excitement around electric cars seems like a lot of hype. Electric cars do not seem to be a step forward in the right direction. In the long term, they will probably end up as more of a diversion from the way ahead. Below...