We Can and Should Put a Million Electric Cars on the Road by 2015

A 1 Series coupe converted to electric drive, the BMW Active-E will get 100 miles of driving range from a full charge of its lithium-ion battery pack Seth Fletcher

PopSci’s own senior editor (and senior car expert) Seth Fletcher has a great op-ed in the New York Times today, giving an overview of the Obama administration’s plan to put a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015–a plan he says is vitally important, highly ambitious, and totally possible.

Seth glances on the history and near future of electric cars, a subject he explores at length in his book, Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy. You can check out an excerpt of the book here–it’s a great read–and more from Seth about lithium battery tech here.

 

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Dan Nosowitz is a freelance writer and editor who has written for Popular Science, The Awl, Gizmodo, Fast Company, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere. He holds an undergraduate degree from McGill University and currently lives in Brooklyn, because he has a beard and glasses and that's the law. You can follow him on Twitter.