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[MotoRyder]

Steve LeVine is the Washington correspondent for Quartz, a news site covering the global economy, who recently wrote a book entitled, “The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World.”  I found this on the New York Times website:  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/opinion/joe-nocera-the-riddle-of-powering-electric-cars.html

According to the article, "The core of LeVine’s book is about the effort to take the next big step: create a battery that can achieve five times the mileage, while still remaining stable..."

To summarize the columnist, Ed Nocera, the book states that “France and Germany and China have renewed their push for electric cars.  The stakes are so high and the dividends so rich that they keep going — even if the quest seems, at times, quixotic." 

Accordingly, a compelling assessment is that batteries are a hard problem, and that the federal government can help in subsidizing the research needed to try and solve electrical energy storage puzzle.