Will the problems never end, vol.2

[daveg]

Reckless - I am not saying that that electric cars are for everyone at the moment, not least because of the price and limited range. Interestingly though Volvo has just predicted its e cars will have a range of 620 miles by 2030

I think of e cars like mobile phones - in the 1980's they cost thousands the battery lasted an hour and took 10 hours to charge, I thought they were toys for poseurs with too much money and never imagined owning one. Today you can get a basic phone for £10 with a battery life of a week most people now have one.

Technology can move very quickly when there is money to be made out of it and in the case of e cars many governments seem very keen on them and will probably encourage them by massively increasing the taxes on petrol and diesel in the name of the environment. The smart phones of today have 100,000 times the computing power of the Apollo 11 guidance computer which in its day was state of the art a lot the improvement driven only by consumer demand.

I think the people experimenting today with electric A7's should be encouraged - it may be the only option for using our cars in the future.