Hm, dunno if this was already mentioned, but completely electric cars are already in production. Examples include: Tesla Roadster (it's really fast!) and the Smart EV (coming soon!)
So in short, yes. All-electric cars are already here. Their main disadvantage, as usual, is range.
But Armed, like you I think I prefer the concept of hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars.
As a side note, biofuels is great if you want to make an independent statement about your green-ness from byproducts of other processes. As an industry and a fuel alternative, it's the biggest load of bullshit- there is just about NOTHING positive about them:
1) The growing of crops and the processing required to turn them into viable biofuels is huge compared to the benefit from using biofuels as opposed to other fuels.
2) This comes at the expense of growing crops for actual food usage, which contributes to driving the food prices up.
3) The government (in both the US and Australia, as far as I'm aware) appears to be subsidising farmers to grow biofuel crops instead of food crops...which exacerbates the money drain.
Yeah, Smart cars are generally tiny and mostly for two people.
There's a reason for this- most people who drive these days do so alone or with one other person in the car. Under conventional transport, this represents a huge waste and extraneous greenhouse gas emissions.
So why not build a car for one or two people that's really efficient, as opposed to one for 5-7 people that's really not? Contrary to popular belief, bigger is no longer better.
Of course. But since they represent far less traffic in heavily urbanised areas, they are less of a priority than single-occupancy vehicles when it comes to traffic and emissions.
no i don't because electricity doesn't come from a magic place, so the pplutions and gas emmisions will still go into the air, and the eletric bill would be more than what t would probably cost for gas in the long run.
Well yes, I do not think that the electric car would actually be developed and produced for long, in the scope of the automobile industry's history. It's too late for that, and there are other forms of fuel that we can make more use of. I'm particularly enamoured of Fuel Cell cars, as their waste emissions is water, and the current template of the prototypes affords much berth for great versatility as well as other technological advances.
The main problem is that at the very least it'll take 10 years, if taken seriously and on a large scale, to even begin to get the infrastructure down. Given that we're now at the point where we are past most peak-oil estimates, this has become a matter of urgence, and so we will always need to seek out intermediate forms of energy production.
