Mass transit solution for commuting to work and back must be a priority where it can be apply ie. suburban areas but elsewhere it's obviously a problem ,the same goes with high speed train .

We know all the problems those solutions have encountered in the US and in Canada , we're spread out over vast areas and the car has define our idea of freedom over the last century ,so habits are hard to change and ideologies even more .

But the problems are slightly different in different areas of north america of course , even if power utilities are now fully integretad , different areas partake to different advantages due to sources of power, it's cost of production it's amortizing and consequences on the environment as perceived by the broad population anyway .

I think the electric car will eventualy take advantage of solar technology developpement for that specific use ,and the car seems to be an obvious target for R&D solar car panels in future years . Wind energy has a lot to gain if it gets to be developped for small rural customers without having the need of developping power lines across the land .

If the industry starts thinking about small and individual needs instead of thinking about large power utilities supplier, then we'll see a very different world appear in less then a decade . It's the big industries interest that often divert development towards dead end evolution . I believe it's been the case with oil vs. alternative energy , with gaz cars vs. electric cars , wind energy supplied by large utilities vs. wind turbine for individual users and it's a little less true for solar . It's certainly been true here in the case of wind energy vs . hydroelectric power and individual power generating wind technology vs individual producer or small producer wind technology for individuals or small community .

The last thing large interests want is to lose their clout on their customers so they do anything to divert change, any change that goes against those interests no matter the consequences, it's so obvious , it should'nt need to be told .

Any way the electric car wi'll go through it's problems along with solar panel adopted technology to cars and battery development and probably something else we can't foresee at this time .

I do not advocate the use of nuclear power but it won't stop it's development and if u follow that industry then u know how important it will be in the next 10-20 years especialy in the states , east of the great divide . Looking from down here i'd say 50 years from now coal , oil and nat. gas will account for a rather small portion of the US energy power grid and F1 races will be done with electric cars .

And all the worries about energy supply will be fixed and we'll talk more about the effect of all those magnetic fields produced by so much wires used by utilities carrying massive amounts of electricity for hundreds and thousands of miles .