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Originally Posted by sperry
So...
PE in the form of gasoline in the fuel tank, converted to PE in the form of a charged chemical battery (at a loss), converted to KE (at a loss), partially recovered to PE in the battery
is somehow significantly different from
PE in the form of gasoline/natural gas/nuclear fuel at the power station, converted to PE in the form of a charged chemical battery (at a loss), converted to KE (at a loss), partially recovered to PE in the battery?
Looks like the same damn thing to me, except electric cars don't have to carry the power station around with them everywhere they go. It's not like regenerative braking can't be used on pure electric cars. Hybrids are basically electric cars that can run on the existing gasoline infrastructure, at a loss in effeciency due to less effective fuel to battery power conversion as well as the added weight of the combustion motor.
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Americans won't forego the "convenience" of 15mpg SUVs, and you expect them to convert to cars that take ~8 hours to fill up the "gas tank?" Not gonna happen. Unless incredible leaps of technology are made, purely electric vehicles will never see major use as household transportation, only specialty functions like meter maid carts and maybe certain parts of public transit.