CR claims that the batteries and infrastructure needed for PISH don't exist:
"[ethanol] requires fewer technological breakthroughs and less infrastructure development than batteries...".
Electric infrastructure is famously ubiquitous, and it's been demostrated many times that off-peak electric power is plentiful and available for slow-charging PISH off-peak in quantities more than sufficient to replace overseas oil imports without building even one new power plant.
EV batteries are well-proven and accepted. In 2000, California Air Resources Board Battery Technology Workshop certified that Nickel Metal Hydride ("NiMH") batteries lasted longer than the expected life of the car, and did not require an unfair initial expense for production of Electric vehicles.
This finding has been validated by subsequent experience of hundreds of 2001 and 2002 Toyota RAV4-EV all-electric 100-mile-range, 80 mph full-function Electric cars. The RAV4-EV are still in use, many in the hands of the public, and still have range essentially unchanged from four or five years ago on the same NiMH battery pack.
Requirements for the RAV4-EV all-electric car are much more stringent than that needed for the GM VOLT PISH, which only needs 40 mile range and has a small Internal Combustion ("IC") engine range-extender.
PISH can fully satisfy our need to replace oil by electric off-peak power. While other oil-free technologies are welcomed, the important point is that the PISH by itself provides a solution, all-electric local driving with occasional longer gasoline-powered trips.
No research needed, NiMH has no memory effect, is cheaper than Lithium, has adequate power, deep-cycles for sufficient range, has a long life, is recyclable, non-toxic and its ingredients are plentiful and cost-effective.
It almost seems as if the world, or the media, has forgotten that the most researched and most tested battery, NiMH, is still in use and still performing to specifications superior to those needed for the PISH even after years of daily fleet and individual driving.