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Old 07-31-2017, 08:40 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard View Post
Electric cars are only going to be a "Niche" in the foreseeable future. What's going to really hit the market are self-driving cars. Personally I'm hoping that big oil pushes back against them because people who own their own cars will always use far more gas than a fleet of "pay per ride" cars will.
It will take time, for sure. There are a lot of people who see a car with a 200-300 mile range and the first thing they think is, "Well, I can't drive that car when I take a vacation somewhere." Of course, most of these people have driven a long way just a few times in a handful of years maybe even in their lives so that isn't really a worry, but they will still need to see that this isn't a real barrier.

I think, within the next 20 years, we will have a lot of self-driving electric cars on the roads.
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