The Electric Car

Except that you can't, because hydrogen tanks can store very little of it(a lead 70kg bottle can store only 1kg of hydrogen), and hydrogen slowly leaks out through any container you could possibly put it into, so after 4-5 weeks of the car standing still you have an empty tank.

Also GLiiDE ("chauffeur driven car service, exclusively using electric vehicles") could mean you don't need to own one: http://gliide.co

The "electric" part of the car is maybe 50% or more of an EV cost, and it will be affected by a "Moore's Law"-like law (but with a 2x improvement in 5-10 years instead of 2), and most of the other 50% is stuff like huge high quality wheels, leather materials and all that "luxury" stuff. Drastically reduce that stuff to $20,000 gas-powered car "luxury" levels, and then extrapolate where the "electric" side of the car will be in 10-15 years, and I think you'll get pretty close to a Model S-like driving experience on a much cheaper car.

To give you an analogy (I know, again with the iPhone, but I think they have more in common than not) what you're saying would be more like trying out a $100 "touchscreen smartphone" in 2007 and saying "Wow these suck - they are even worse than regular smartphones because they work so much more slowly having to power that big resolution and those graphics".

So your experience then wouldn't be an accurate prediction of how touchscreen phones, even $100 or $200 ones, let alone the $600 ones, will be in the future, because in 2007 you needed quite expensive components to provide a "good experience" with a "touchscreen phone".

The original iPhone that cost $600 gave you a much better idea of how touchscreen phones will be 8 years later, because now even $100 touchscreen phones have better specs and work better than the $600 iPhone did back then, and can do a lot more, too.

That's why the Model S should give you a much better idea of how $20,000 EVs will be in 10-15 years than a $5,000 EV does today.

Electric cars limit owners ability to do so. You are on your car's schedule and the current limitations are still extreme. More than one magazine has staged a long drive of an electric car like certain manufactures and enthusiast have only to reveal that you will have to drive out of your way at times and your trip time is greatly extended. The same people who have the means to buy 100k cars; don't fool yourselves the transaction prices on many Ss are there have the extra time.

Think about it, if you can only go 200 miles and have to stop for thirty minutes each time to charge what it does to anything but travel completed wholly in that radius. Then add in diversions to acceptable charging stations.

Pure electrics are fine for metropolitan travel. When their recharge rate becomes very quick or an acceptable range extender; likely hydrogen; becomes available then they will have widerspread acceptance.

To be honest, outside of a small niche electric "cars" aren't there yet. However there is no reason electric school buses aren't worth the time. If you want acceptance to grow then employ the tech where everyone will see it and in a means you can sell on many levels. While an electric school bus would be expensive I would much rather see the Federal subsidy go there than funding a wealthy persons car, someone who could afford it without the subsidy. School systems spend a fortune on fuel and are subject to fluctuations in price. Electrify the buses, solar and wind power the depots, and you can not only charge them but sell to the grid and during times when school is out they could perhaps feed back stored electricty.