This is an interesting point in time, similar to the period when cars were being developed in the earliest days.

There is a tendency, I think, to imagine that the switch to electrically powered instead of fossil fuel powered vehicles would come about as a simple matter of taking out the gas engine and dropping in an electric power plant but this is only happening in some cases.

What's also happening is these things are being built from the ground up, clean sheet design starting with a blank piece of paper. And just as the Wright brothers used bicycle parts to build the first airplane and just as Daimler and Benz used bike parts to make the first car, then so the advent of super magnet motors and digital motor control ushers in a new age - we are witnessing the birth of the next generation electric vehicle quite unlike what we think of as a car and that imagery may become as foreign to our grandchildren as the coachwork in horseless carriages used to be.

We had our brief love affair with the automobile and drunk on the fumes of subsidized cheap gas we build cities that makes no sense without a car and polluted the holy hell out of the planet .

I guess the goal now is to get rid of every fossil fuel powered car by the end of the century. They'll still exists, keep in mind the Amish still use horseless carriages today.

Watching this guy tinker and showing off what he's done is pretty amusing but it does fascinate me that we seem to be in a golden age once again of people building vehicles for themselves to use rather than going the conventional car route