Friday, December 28, 2012

Energy expert:Electric cars not the answer now


IAGS’s Gal Luft: Better Place all-electric example "very instructive" but "not yet mature," with "many uncertainties."

While electrification of the motor vehicle market should be a long-term goal, the automobile industry should be focusing in the more immediate term on popularizing natural gas-based liquid fuel mix options, an energy security expert contended.

“I think we need to be a little more realistic and understand the pace of penetration of new technologies, how it really works,” said Dr. Gal Luft, executive director of the Washington- based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS).

See full Article: http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=293880