Overview

More or less, the only sustainable long term method of locomotion would be electric cars or locomotion. Whether by using gasoline to generate electricity, or using giant solar panels in Alaska, or using Thorium to produce enormous amounts of electricity, electric cars present the only way to have clean and nearly fuel less energy generation for thousands, if not billions of years.

Logistically, electricity is simple to handle, as nearly anything that produces power or heat can produce electricity, and can be transported nearly instantaneously through wires anywhere desired. Due to the wide variety of applications of electricity, including heating, powering complicated hardware such as computers, filtration devices and refrigeration, electricity is incredibly important and pretty much the way of the future. Without it all of modern society would likely collapse and it's capabilities are nearly endless. A versatile and widespread way to transport energy, electric everything is more or less a desirable inevitability.

Current problems that exist include batteries, power generation sources, and potential safety issues or health hazards. Batteries may explode and burn if made of improper materials, can be toxic if disposed of improperly, have a tendency to wear out quickly (the International Space Station requires battery replacements every 6 years) and can be expensive to replace or buy in the first place. Power generation sources may be expensive, have dwindling fuel supplies (such as with gasoline), produce pollution or generally be dangerous (such as with *some* uranium designs). Other potential safety issues include improper disposal of batteries, potential fires if the batteries are not fire proof, and generally reduced weight in order to give further range or battery life to current electric automobiles.

If carbon fiber was just 1/3 it's initial cost, being 15 dollars per pound and needing to be 5 dollars per pound in order to be roughly the cost of steel per unit (as carbon fiber has 1/5th the density of steel), which may be plausible to reduce due to it's high manufacture cost and low material cost (being produced from rayon and nylon) and the potential decrease in cost of electricity using various methods, the range of electric cars could be tripled with potentially the life of the battery (used 1/3 the amount). This may also lengthen the life of the engine and make accidents safer as the car is lighter weight with no reduction in strength (and carbon fiber disintegrates on impact, producing a very reliable energy absorbing ability).

Depending on the batteries used, of which include potassium ion, lithium titanate, and Lithium Iron Phosphate, batteries may be cheaper, safer, or faster to recharge, eliminating more issues without decreasing total power capabilities.

With newer nano materials, possibly 10-20 years away, carbon super capacitors with far greater potential of any battery known to date (able to resist nearly any weather conditions, 100 times stronger than steel, able to store hundreds of times the energy as current batteries, wearing out in thousands of years etc.) and materials that are significantly stronger than any known material to date may be capable of mass production at relatively low prices, which will not only allow for amazing electric cars and batteries but also potentially lots of other products.