Originally Posted by noglider

There's the hydrogen fuel cell, but of course, that has other problems, cost being the primary one. We may one day make these practical, but for the time being, the all-electric car doesn't fit most Americans' needs. We like to drive long distances between refuelings, and we don't want to wait long at a refueling. It takes 5 or 10 minutes to put gasoline in the tank. It takes hours to recharge a battery. And it's impractical to swap a battery that weighs hundreds of pounds. Maybe one day, we'll have cranes that lift it out and drop a replacement in and a system for doing it quickly.