Car makers are also at work on clean-burning fuel cells that power electric drive motors. Transportation scholar Daniel Sperling says EVs are an evolutionary step, and they'll share the road with other low-emission vehicles. And what we need to do is, and in fact we're moving in this direction already, is thinking about vehicles being more specialized. It's very uncertain at this point in time which of these technologies will be superior, which will dominate, and it will probably be a mix of those. The EV is getting a lot of attention.
People honk, wave, and ask all kinds of questions.
That's pretty cool. It's electronically governed to go no faster than 86. Honda might fret about how to sell EVs to other drivers, but the Braunsteins are sold on theirs. For Living on Earth, I'm Jeff Hoffman in San Francisco. Four-fifty a month.