[fulafel]

> 1. The battery is where most development happens and where it's most needed. So you don't have to worry about your car getting too old too fast. Just get fresh battery.

Isn't the situation more like, current battery technology (lithium) has only seen small incremental improvements for a while and apart from cost reductions there isn't anything major on short-medium timescale coming up.

You can still put in a new battery around the 10-15 year mark of course even with current cars, with hopefully a fraction of today's cost.

[vlehto]

Personally I'm waiting for the moment when someone notices that you can burn pretty much anything in fuel cell. Then long distance travel could be fueled with vegetable oil or biowaste extracted methane. Once you step away from hydrogen, everything gets much easier. But the hype is on hydrogen and currently the economical incentives for alternatives are lacking.