electric vehicles are present tense

The other day someone posting on an ORE thread, expressing doubts if there is a future for vehicles that rely on lithium batteries ie hybrids and electric vehicles. The link to Orocobre is of course that much of the growth in demand for lithium is expected to come from the vehicle sector.

Here's a couple of links which may help persuade that poster that the technology is such that already the new energy vehicles (as EV and hybrids are referred to in China) are a force.

GM's Chevy Bolt has just won a car of the year award from one of the motor magazines in the US.

http://www.*.com/motor-trend-chevy-bolt-car-of-the-year-2017-2016-11/?r=AU&IR=T

The Tesla Model S won the same award in 2013. Just to show how impressive that vehicle is in its market segment check this out.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ck-up-against-bugatti-lamborghini-and-ferrari

Sure I've seen a Tesla Model S and I'm thinking that a Ferrari may still be more of a chick magnet than a Model S but the Model S is nonetheless impressive.

And finally here is a piece on what VW is hoping to do in China within 4 years, remebering that China is already a bigger market for new energy vehicles than the States.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-autoshow-china-volkswagen-didi-idUKKBN13C0U4

Nothing's a certainty of course but I suggest that "new energy" vehicles have already gone past the tipping point for their commercial acceptance.