I may have posted this nugget before but will again. In the early 1920's, cars were almost equally split in sales three ways. Gasoline powered, electric powered, and steam powered. It was decades before government intervention and tilting the playing field to "create" a winner. At the time, gasoline powered vehicles won the first round of the battle. 100 years later, I would be in favor of a renewed battle. Gasoline powered, vs. Diesel, vs Hydrogen, vs Hybrid, vs EV. May the best method of propulsion win. But when you have the game heavily manipulated by all the players involved, a level playing field where the market determines the winner can't happen. Without immense help from government grants, bailouts, rebates, credits, and other ploys, electric cars would have to survive on their own merits. I like choices, not to be told what I have to spend my money on if I wanted a new car.
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