Here’s an interesting article that I found. Intel co-founder Andy Grove speaks about how the electric car industry development is similar to the micro-processor industry.
clipped from www.dintz.com

Intel Founder: Look to Silicon Valley for Electric Car Development
Intel is hard at work developing the next generation of low-power Atom chips, but company co-founder and former CEO Andy Grove has bigger ideas. In a guest editorial in Fortune, Grove writes that just as how power and efficiency of the internal-combustion engine were at the core of the development of the automobile, batteries will be a competitive advantage for the automakers of the future. Unfortunately, battery production is currently dominated by overseas consumer electronics manufacturers, not U.S. automakers.

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