This fragile time we are witnessing is the redesigning of the automobile industry. Not only is it embracing a new means of fueling our transportation but also a paradigm shift in the fundamental business model.
When it comes to pushing a new technology, there are no better ways then incentives, mostly tax cuts and financial rebates. Different governments handle things differently. Find out what works, and what raises questions.
The U.S. is in a awkward position of having the brains behind a lot of battery technology but relinquishes the mass production to overseas. How it chooses to spend funds for local production will have far reaching consequences for the future.
While we wait for the last stretch that brings us the first electric cars on the road, companies and governments are bending backward to make it happen. In the meantime, startups still continue to do what they do best, innovate and proving bloated bigger companies that it can be done.