Batteries in cars do not make sense. Hybrids using alcohol fuel do make sense, if you grow the fuel as part of local regenerative farms. "CSA for fuel." - Mo

Batteries in cars do not make sense. Hybrids using alcohol fuel do make sense, if you grow the fuel as part of local regenerative farms. "CSA for fuel." - Most ICE cars can be converted to use alcohol. (We can use the existing cars longer, rather than replacing them, which would save a TON of resources.) - The exhaust is non-toxic. - It's carbon neutral. (The carbon in the fuel came from the air, not the ground.) - Pretty much anyone can make it. It's not hard. - The byproducts are good animal feed. (Yeast is protein, fermentation converts the sugars and starches into yeast and alcohol. So alcohol production improves the inputs rather than destroying or degrading them!) - Alcohol has (much!) higher energy density than batteries. - Batteries have all kinds of problems once they are wrecked: cars have spontaneously erupted into flames a week after the crash that sent them to the wrecking yard. When they do burn they put out crazy toxic smoke.