China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball

[mwilbert]

External combustion vehicles ARE NOT the future. They are dying.

Germany recently stopped their subsidies on them, and sales fell in half. HALF !

The greenest car sold today is the Pirus Prime. A plug in hybrid.

We can be 30x greener building those than we can building full external combustion vehicles.

You have to distinguish timescales here. Right this minute, plug-in hybrids are an excellent choice. But they are a transitional technology. In maybe five years, certainly in ten, they will be pointless in most situations--you'll have faster charging, cheaper batteries using more common materials and you'll have lower carbon electricity and you'll have built out charging networks, and EVs will dominate.