All the popular car talk among the "in" crowds in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco has been about electric cars for at last the last 4-5 years. And yet, despite massive subsidies of various kinds, including non-monetary incentives and mandates, combined pure battery-electric vehicle ((BEV)) sales and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) sales in 2017 barely exceeded 1% of the U.S. light vehicle market. Basically, 199,826 units out of the ~17 million unit U.S. market total: Monthly Plug-In Sales Scorecard.
Meanwhile, when it comes to fuel source alternatives to gasoline, we are about to see U.S.