I hope these dudes have some deep pockets either way, cuz it's gonna take a lot of investment to break into the U.S. It took Hyundai a solid decade of sales and marketing before people started really considering Korean cars, and they were one of the biggest auto manufacturers in the world at the time. No one wants to take a chance on a car company that might not be around in a decade.

And another problem with cars today, you have to have a degree in engineering to tinker with them yourself if there is a minor problem with them.

A graduate from IIT of Madras once told me, "The country which develops a battery to store solar energy will rule the world."

That's the battery I am waiting for.

So Electricity is free?  Forty-Eight percent of electricity is produced from coal, twenty percent from Natural Gas, and Nineteen percent from Nuclear (2007 data).  Just because you don't see it pumped out of the ground does not mean it is "Free"?  Until "We" stop driving to the store, or sitting in the parking lot with the AC running, it doesn't matter if we are burning petroleum, or an energy transport made from petroleum?

That stands for "Compressed Air Vehicle" 

http://www.mdi.lu/english/

These are the first possibly carbon-less vehicles.  But no one is touting this technology, why not?  They get the same performance, require a new infrastructure investment, and a paradigm shift in thinking.  But unlike electric, we are not trading one evil for another to prolong the petroleum slide.

You got it right!