What have electric cars got to do with mobile phones?
Cars of the future may draw heavily on mobile phone technology for everything from entertainment to crash-avoidance software. The iChange electric concept car features a body that adapts to the number of passengers on board and adjustable seats and car ignition all controlled via an iPhone. There are parallels between the development of mobile phones and electric cars. In the early days of mobile phones the handsets were heavy, gave poor reception and cost many thousands of phones. Mobiles are now so inexpensive, the cheapest models are almost disposable and we have grown used to charging them overnight. It is likely we will learn the same habits where electric vehicles are concerned.
