"The idea for a personal electric powered vehicle car, which can compete with your current SUV is about as silly as one powered by biofuel.

An electric powered train system really only makes sense simply because they are so efficient."

I couldn't agree more. And that's before we talk about the resources consumed in maintaining a redundant and oversized infrastructure to allow millions of individual automobiles to scurry hither and yon, compared to the limited and simple infrastructure needed to move a few hundred trains to the same destinations.