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China is already in the lead.

1. First off, anyone who has ever been to China knows that the streets are filled will electric bicycles and scooters. They produce something like 20 million a year. Increasingly, many of them are lithium powered. And no, not all lithium batteries burn like a sony and yes they can be recycled. It is a natural segue from 2 wheels to 4.

2. Google BYD. This company will probably be first to market a FULL electric car. Not an experiment, not a prototype. They are also the 2nd largest battery manufacturer in the world, so no belly ache-ing about how it can't be done. No internal interests arguing for the superiority of internal combustion engines.

Want more? Warren Buffett owns 10% of BYD , and he rarely makes mistakes.

And BYD is only ONE of a multitude of Chinese car manufacturers.