[mschuster91]

Straight electric is usually done without supercaps, thus losing the ability to fully recover braking energy, and batteries still don't have the same range as a tank of fuel, and can't be recharged as fast.

There is one thing that has the potential to kickstart the EV industry: sell the cars, but rent the battery packs, with an industrywide standard on how battery packs look like and how they are swappable by machines.

It's no good if a gas station has to carry swap stations and swap batteries for dozens of different models.