Originally Posted by MellowGold

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~w...ytishlong.html

Here is an entire report done by OSU. You are right...sort of. More accurately, we are both wrong. Electric cars will have a place in the future, but they do not now. It all depends on where the car is drawing the energy from.

Sooo...it all comes down to the energy source. In all honesty, I stand completely behind nuclear power. Radioactive waste is a small price to pay for clean energy, and new improvements and advances in the field are quickly making waste a much smaller problem. Meltdowns are a near impossiblility.

Advances in any of these areas will benifit our society in general. Better batteries will solve our endless struggle for longer range portable appliances. Nuclear research will happen regardless. Cleaner power plants and tougher emissions controls will benefit the whole world. This is not a waste of money. This research is happening anyways.

I wholeheartily agree that we should be spending money researching clean sources of power. EVs would just be a by-product of these research.