What do think will be the near future best means of electric power for automobiles?

I’m leaning towards zinc air fuel cells and ultra capacitors if the latter arrive on the scene this year as some anticipate.
they already have zinc air fuel cell buses for sale out of Europe tested and quite adequate. but lithium will run short of supply before you know it and oxygen and hydrogen production will never be an improvement for long . I think reusable zinc or ultracapacitors via eestor, in junction with a nuclear upgraded energy grid is on the way.

In the near future I see a continuation of the same for “electric vehicles”, e.g., Ni Metal Hydride (as in Toyota Prius) and lithium ion batteries that are the subject of intense research and very close to commercialization.

I suspect that the market over the next 10-20 years will slowly gravitate to Plug In Hybrids for most cars or a system like GM’s planned Volt system, e.g., an electric vehicle with an small on board electric generator that runs on gasoline (which to my surprise is actually VERY efficient compared to internal combustion engines with current drive trains).

Everything else, e.g., fuel cells, etc., will take even more years to develop into an appropriate appropriate drive train. Although I suspect that any improved batteries or other electrical storage devices that have high energy storage to weight rations like “ultra capacitors” will be the next generation because they will simply offset batteries in the electric drive trains being developed now.

BTW If you read the projections … in the near future electric vehicles and plug in hybrids or the volt system will NOT make significant inroads into the market and are expected to be less than 25% of the market for many years to come.

I suspect that gas prices will level off somewhere about $5 per gallon and the US market will get used to it … plus there will also be increasing competition from ultra efficient diesel engines that Europe now uses.

Its going to be a fun ride though..

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