[JamesNoBrakes]

Originally Posted by protovack

There is nothing inherently wrong with combustion and ICEs are not going away.

Sure there is, it's inherently less efficient then beaming energy directly to the car via powerlines, and the great thing about that is that it can be hydroelectric, solar, nuclear, or whatever. Most cities are using scalable gas-turbine power generators now that burn clean and have efficiency around 65% or better, which is way way better than ICE and you don't have to truck fuel around everywhere, to every little gas-station, let alone the energy it takes to build all those tanker trucks, storage facilities, and so on. Why limit yourself to one type of fuel when you can run electricity generated from a plethora of possible sources? ICE are surely going away, oh, not like some of the anti-electric alarmist claim, like some giant big switch being thrown and then after that date you have to "give up" your ICE car. They will simply continue to gain traction, as electric solutions have in many other industrial and consumer applications. There will be holdouts for a while where it's not practical, but eventually the engineering will be overcome. Frankly, I think some people are scared of the future, we tend to want to grab on to what we know and are used to, it's natural.