Elroy, you apparently haven't noticed that Qualcomm, Formula E, Google, Apple, Amazon, Uber and all sorts are working flat out on autonomous auto-piloted electric cars and other vehicles, with big data flowing to and from them.
You are thinking of it in religious war terms regarding CO2 emissions, but it's really just a technology, dollars and sense process. CO2 emissions are more valuable than they are harmful, despite a few decades of hysteria and self-dealing swindling by the likes of Al Gore, Solyndra, Obama, and the Mann Made Warming gang of data tormenters.
One of the world's great paradigm shifts is coming as the idea of trains and other big vehicles gives way to hordes of autonomous little Uber cars.
"Renewable" energy is bunk. Any energy source has a cost and consequence and it's just a matter of picking the best one. Jill Stein is on RT right now raving like a maniac about CO2 - recorded first 12 Nov 2016. So there are still hysterics out there who see energy as a continuation of the Big Oil, anti-multinational, Seven Sisters, money mania. It seems to be envy and lust for power that motivates them.
400 ppm of CO2 is no problem, it's a solution to crop boosting and climate stabilisation [homeopathic low levels at 280 ppm were a Snowball Earth hazard]. Now plants can breathe easy. Irrigation requirements are reduced. Phew!
After 100 years of vast effort, people have raised CO2 from 280 ppm to only 400 ppm and that was with easily found oil, gas and coal and Yank tanks filling the highways burning megatons of oil and the human population booming from about a billion to 7 billion.
Now, photovoltaics are almost as competitive and battery and electric car technology are getting good too. So it's more economic to generate the required electricity in huge power stations where efficiency runs at nearly 60% compared with cars at barely 30% when running on gasoline in internal combustion engines.
China would also like to have clean air - as in no particulate and other muck [not CO2]. So electric cars would help there.
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