
There may not be any auto companies that are building an electric car that people can easily afford. The best approach seems to be to take an old car and convert it to electric. Even the small electric car companies operate at a huge expense and sell stock before the first cars are really to hit the street. Most companies that build electric cars can't turn a profit. An electric car could be used for most of our daily driving, however you will still need a gasoline engine to drive from New York to California. Technology may change this reallity to a brighter one. As it now stands, the best batteries are L-ion which cost a lot. I am building my first electric car with a premium lead battery that was developed for race cars and boats at a much lower cost. I will use six of these. The car will cost me a fraction of what those other cars cost to buy. It is important to reduce waste energy, drag and weight. Someday an electric car will be refueled with fresh electrolyte instead of plugging in for hours. However, what I will do is include a very small generator that can recharge the batteries while I am parked at work for eight hours or longer each day. It should only take a pint of gas to charge up the batteries over time while the car is parked. What would not make sense is to load the car down with a heavy four cylinder engine that could run the car entirely on its own. This is what they did in the Volt. If you want an electric car, you should build it to run primarily on electricity, not gasoline. The best priced electric car will be built in someone's garage at home. The advantage of driveing a pure electric car is that you never need to buy gas and you can do most of your driving if not all. The technology to make it better will come from industries that produce new batteries, motors, and perhaps new technologies that can recharge the car as fast as you can pump gas.