Biggest Electric Car Barrier
The biggest problem holding back the electric car is simple infrastructure. Currently there are maybe a handful of charging stations that might be near the owner of an electric car. The only current recharging options are at home for most electric car owners.
Decades of gas powered transportation has resulted in a gas station on every corner. And for the most part, each car ran on one of the few types of gasoline offered. Now we have different battery technologies, and connection types for electric cars. Imagine if Ford, Honda, and GM all needed a different type of gasoline, and each refueling method was different.
Electric car technology is emerging and changing rapidly, so to pick a standard now might be foolish, but until that happens, the electric car will never be seen in every garage in America.
This is why cars like the Volt will have an early advantage because they have engineering around this problem by combining the best of electric power with the features of the gas-world infrastructure.
So how does the electric car quickly advance?
Choose an early standard of charging?
Offer many charging options per charging station?
More government subsidies for building infrastructure?
Electric cars are never going to make it, you can never drive anywhere more than a few hundred miles at most, and then you’d have to wait HOURS to recharge…. they need to fix that before I’d even consider buying one!