RE:RE:The question of $100 oil is only WHENThere will be a niche market for EV's but only that. It was a new and very well popularized and desirable product but as people learn more and more about it they understand their flaws. Even in Germany they learnt that when you have cold weather not only you have range anxiety, you have temperature anxiety that if in winter months you turn your heat on your range gets closer to the golf cart and not to the diesel car that they are used to. Combine it with long charge time it becomes a super annoying inconvinience. They also try electric buses all over Europe and in some N/A cities, it just doesn't work well. They have to put diesel or gas heaters in order not to lose the range during the cold weather. All it is is pain in the rear.
They need to bring diesel back to North America and give subsidies for diesel hybrid's engine, that way at least we can deal with growing oil demands.