For many years I have complained about electric cars, quoting Alex Steffen: “the answer to the problem of the American car is not under the hood, and we’re not going to find a bright green future by looking there.” I thought it simply didn’t go far enough, quoting Alex again: “ The best car-related innovation we have is not to improve the car, but eliminate the need to drive it everywhere we go.”
But since I wrote that in 2010, so much has happened, and reading Zachary Shahan’s recent post in CleanTechnica, I wonder if it isn’t time to take a more nuanced view of the issue.
