Electric Vehicles - the Postcards that got Hand Delivered

F commented on the number of small electric cars in San Marino.  She found a carpark full of them with no front number plates and assumed that they were rentals or something - and then having opened her eyes realized there were small electric cars parked everywhere.

Then In Luxembourg she and Mr B stumbled on a shop selling electric bikes, scooters and motorbikes.  Apparently Mr B was reluctant to go in for a closer look, so F photographed them from the outside.  It seems 'going lecky' is gathering pace.

Does the world have enough of the stuff you need to make batteries to replace all the internal combustion engines currently doing the rounds?  I mean, look at the roads sometime when you are out and think about how many dinosaurs and ancient forests are being burned in the form of hydrocarbon fuel every day and ask yourself: can you build batteries for all that?

F found an article somewhere about a small town on the north east coast of Scotland that is part of a pilot scheme for using wind power to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen, and mix the hydrogen into the town gas supply for heating and cooking;  the objective being to work out whether you can build a hydrogen based power-yourselves system.  

Surely if someone can make that work it must be less damaging to the world than mining lithium don't you think?  Lithium must be a finite supply; it will run out sometime.  Water into hydrogen into water and so on (relying on wind and sun for the electricity to do it) sounds like it should be a more sensible approach.

Cats know more than you think about energy transfers, and can understand that zapping water into its component elements is not particularly efficient, and hydrogen powered engines probably aren't a super efficient energy conversion system either - but it has to be cleaner than what y' all have now doesn't it?