Who will all have a harder time finding investor money and will meet with more skepticism as development proceeds.

Like all other aspects of our greedy scam culture, the possibility of this new battery chemistry and some of the remaining social trust has been monetized and traded for cash to line somebody’s pockets.

Because this is how research works and if we manage to get fusion power generation working well, we’ll have practically limitless clean energy available.

Fair enough (even though I could pick some nits concerning ionic (de)polarization and chemical signaling, all driven by various redox reactions and powered by aforementioned hydrocarbon oxidation).

In actuality, nearly nothing in the universe seems to be powered by electricity. Gravity powered fusion drives the stars, radioactive decay (fission) and gravity drive planetary activity, chemical (including photochemical) reactions drive life. Electrical current flow happens naturally, but it doesn’t seem like a big driving phenomenon.

Not to say that we shouldn’t use electric cars, or really electric everything. We should! It’s just that the OPs argument was dumb.

Your body runs on oxidation of hydrocarbons and generates CO2 exhaust, like an ICE engine.

In Cuba the old cars are meticulously maintained, though. In the US it will be all rusty old death traps.

[Seriously though, the bad economy is already turning the roads into this. The number of frighteningly unmaintained and crashed-but-not-repaired cars is noticeably increasing lately.]

True. As much as I hate to admit it, the Windows phones were actually pretty good.

Had they not botched app adoption and then immediately given up, they could have done fairly well.