Electric vehicles

[Andy Bennett]

At the moment I don't see the electric car as viable for much beyond town runabouts. They are too expensive, too difficult to charge, rely on fossil fuels to provide their charge, have too short a 'real world' working distance.

But:

it wasn't that long ago that computers filed a room and there were forecasts from Microsoft that one day every town will have its own computer. Now the fitbit thingy on your wrist has more computing power than that room filled with electronics. I fully appreciate that we might be closer to the tail of diminishing returns on technology, but they probably said that just before they designed the first microchip.

But:
VHS won over Beta when it shouldn't have, and electric cars are perhaps winning over hydrogen, at the moment...

Oh and who knew 5 years ago that you could become a multimillionaire from a new job called a 'social media influencer'.

Beware of forecasters. Nostradamus only got it right by making a blunderbus of predictions to ensure that the odd one must come true. Today it will rain. Today it won't rain. I guarantee at least one of my predictions will come true

Andy