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Electric Cars – A Mighty Big Bite
The San Jose Mercury News highlights the story of the role that the tech industry could have in the refinement, manufacture and development of the next generation of electric automobiles.
As the the theory goes, the California business model of technology, finance and innovation is just the sort of breakthrough thinking and expertise that can break the electric car bottleneck.
The practice may turn out to be something different. For all of the faults of the auto business, it must be pointed out that the sheer size and scope of the operations of a GM or a Toyota producing tens of millions of vehicles per year is something that is pretty ambitious, even by Valley standards.
One bit of rationality that has crept into the discussion is the realization that we probally need at least two sets of vehicles – small and economical city cars and bio-diesel / extended range vehicles for long haul or thinly populated areas.
The only fly in the ointment ? Rationality does not rule. If it did, there would be an immediate mandate on any Federally funded project to require paved sidewalks on any new construction from here on out. Consider how many miles of sidewalk got paved in your neighborhood and just how much of your daily life is walkable.
That’s the challenge. And it is just as big as the challenges facing the electric car.
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