<p dir="ltr">On May 27, 2014 10:55 AM, "John Clark" <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Governments have spent billions of dollars to subsidize the photovoltaic and wind industries, but how many electric cars are actually fueled by them? I imagine you could count them on the fingers of one hand.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Define "fueled by". Even if you constrain it to just cars with their own solar panels directly on the car, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_cars_(with_homologation)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_cars_(with_homologation)</a> gives more specific examples on homebrews alone.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Add in mass produced electric cars that plug in to stations either solely powered by PV, or grid tied where there is a nearby PV installation also grid tied (the typical residential case) and it reaches thousands easily - as in, "1,000 <= X < 1,000,000".</p>
<p dir="ltr">This is not a complete solution yet, but not all technologies are adopted as fast as the Internet was. Consider that good EVs and good PV have only come on the market recently, while there are over-50-year-old cars still on the roads. (Keeping those clean without simply confiscating them has been an ongoing struggle for decades. Just ask the regulators.) Give it time - or come up with some other line of reasoning than, "it did not instantly solve everything therefore it must be worthless."</p>