While there is been ample speculation that the electric car is about to takeover in the near future, the reality is somewhat different. Just the other day an interesting statistic was released with reference to the electric car versus the gasoline combustion vehicle. Tesla. the darling of the electric vehicle set, sold about 80 thousand units last year at a loss of over 700 million. One auto producer BMW sold 2 million units at a profit of 7 billion. The future of the electric car, is just that the future, far enough away that most of us will not be around to see how it eventually competes with the current dominant gas powered vehicle.