Comments shanerh has made

Another Electric option...

I'm more of a Human Power fan myself.  I think we overstate the need for cars (be they hybrid, bio-d, or "regular") and therefore start our train of thought from the automobile and think we can "scale down" to an electric vehicle.  
We have built our cities and our minds around the wrong model.  We should start on the pedestrian model and then move way up to human powered vehicles and only when absolutely necessary an assisted motor of some kind.
Here is a good example: http://cleverchimp.com/

Start out with a  cargo bike to do you're general shopping, traveling, dropping the kids off to school, etc.  then if you need to carry those hay bales home for a cobb work home project and the closest farm is 10 miles away then load up the cleverchimp assist, head to the farm, load up the hay, and come back home...

The car, in any form, is not the answer.
The bike, in most forms, is.
transpodiversity- lot's of different human powered vehicles, with some mass transit thrown in for good measure.

Also check out what IS being done with Human Power: http://www.pedalexpress.comOn It's an electric bike posted 4 years, 3 months ago 7 Responses