They have. Over 1,500 Roadsters sold and delivered as of January 2011.

Nope, May drove an electric vehicle with a battery. The battery replaces the ultra-capacitor from earlier FCX models (the same text since 2008, I checked).

Under this legislation, people can continue to drive gasoline cars for excitement outside city centers, and in 2050 I'm sure all enthusiast cars but the hardest-core will be able to whine around town in EV-only mode like the Porsche 918. It will be a shame not to see roaring Lamborghinis crash into parked cars!

Let me Google that for you:

Where do you get your 20% more powerful than petrol?

added environmental effect of those fancy lithium ion batteries

That rebodied Elise is also the cheapest car you can buy with all carbon fiber body panels (to offset the 450kg of batteries). Tesla builds the motor, the battery management for all those laptop batteries, and the power management controller. I'm glad you bought a Lotus Elise instead, it's your own money.

James May was an idiot or liar for saying "there's no battery" in the Honda Clarity fuel cell vehicle. An FCV is a battery electric car, powered by an expensive fuel cell that requires a non-existent hydrogen infrastructure.

You lack common sense and math skills. How many satellite launches are there a year? How many cars are there?

We all know the problems of EVs, but don't exaggerate. 30-minute DC fast charge is available right now, and cars can be recharged while they sit around all night and most of the day. If that doesn't work for you, don't buy one, but pipe dream isn't the right phrase when there are 10,000+ pre-sold already.

"Hydrogen Power" means an electric car powered by an expensive on-board fuel cell, which is less efficient than recharging batteries and which requires a non-existent hydrogen infrastructure. By 2050 a hydrogen fuel cell may well be the range-extending technology we use to quickly refuel on long trips, but in cities I…

Electricity comes from a variety of sources. I believe a lot of European electricity currently comes from coal, which does suck. By 2050 Europe could have solar electricity transmitted from North Africa, and/or adoption of smaller better nukes.

Somalia welcomes you! Come celebrate the 20th anniversary of No government restrictions, hell no functioning government at all to get in your way! Freedom beckons!

You're naive to think the government isn't already intervening and affecting the market. It builds (or not) more roads, it subsidizes or runs public transit, it mandates (or not) parking spaces, it encourages (or not) public charging stations, etc. Ford has already responded to the EU proposal with an asinine "Nooo,…

Awesome. Especially the part where the cleanup crew tries to throw away the fourth empty dime bag but she has an emotional attachment to it from 2004's hookup by the dumpster, and she freaks out and tries to shut down the operation, but after tears and shouting her family convinces her to let the excavation continue...

Not true. There are at least 15 Prius in my neighborhood and only one has a bumper sticker. The used non-GTI VW Golf and Jettas have all the stickers.

There's exactly one thoroughly debunked study comparing Prius to Hummer, from CNW Marketing, and then dozens of people who love the idea of sticking it to smug asshole Prius drivers who glommed onto it and endlessly regurgitate it.

You're mistaken. Read my replies elsewhere on this page. The embodied energy in making a car is equivalent to roughly 1000 gallons (3 tons) of gasoline, more for heavier cars. But it's basic mathematics that a higher mpg car will save many thousands of gallons over its lifetime (here's some sample math).

Well, the LS 600h L is AWD. The comparable LS 460 L AWD is 16/23. For the ridiculous extra money you get a bigger V8, a more powerful car (438 horsepower vs. 380), and yet slightly better fuel economy. And your car doesn't pollute while your driver "idles" across the street waiting for you to finish bonking your…

How is getting 50mpg from a dull reliable mid-size car NOT helping the environment? Better mpg means TONS less gasoline burned over the lifetime of the car.