Originally Posted by crockett

Battery storage is now advancing at a rate much higher than expected.. Think in the past we used to have HArd Drives which were measured in megabytes.. Today we have we have Terrabytes and that's happened in a fairly short time span.. Say roughly 15 years.

The same thing is going on with battery storage, they are right now making big advancements. Example now they are capable of creating lithium ion storage devices that can store as much as all lithium ion packs in the entire world in 2013. Meaning in 2 years the capacity has grown astronomically.

Storage devices (ie batteries) are the only thing that holds back electric cars from taking over the places of fossil fuel as far as usability.. (The auto manufactures obviously still need to gear up to make that happen). In the very near future, electric cars will have the same distance capibilities if not longer distance as today gasoline powered cars..

It's coming fast and and they will overtake gas powered cars on the roads.. It's pretty much a given at this point. The only question, is how soon..