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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Electric cars are coming, and sooner than most think. So are alternate sources of electricity. As battery technology finally catches up with combustion technology price will decrease significantly.
As for giving up without a fight, the coal industry is losing outside china and doesn't want to. Economics fixes that alone. What we need is an embrace of nuclear, which may prove difficult
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The sad truth is battery technology hasn't seen a revolution in 20 years. We've had evolutionary steps of Lithium batteries but they are not going to be what is needed for large scale replacement of gas cars. This could change overnight, but currently it hasn't happened.
It's to bad we haven't found a way to extract the energy from hydrocarbons without the crude method of basically burning it. If we could get that energy out (and perhaps put it back in) it would be the best battery around. Hydrocarbons are incredibly energy dense.