E-cars? How about producing streetcars? - The Globe and Mail
Getting everybody to adopt electric cars just means people switch from one kind of car to another kind of car. It would do nothing about gridlock, the abysmal blight that highways are, and the horrible land use conditions imposed by cars. Much better would be to convert over to more mass transit. But the popular conception is that cars are the only way to get around and therefore the only form of "green transportation" which can exist is a cleaner sort of car. There is more problems to be solved than just making cleaner cars.
