The only problem is that nobody is going to buy them now that the cat is out of the bag that they really don’t run on “free” electricity. The outrageous pricetags are another matter entirely.
I’m also curious to see some serious crash testing results. Exactly how durable is that battery when you T-bone it with an F-150 doing 60?? What happens when you run it head-on into a bridge abutment at the same speed??
You remember those stories about exploding laptops & cellphones?. Scale up that battery to run a car & try to imagine the inferno that results. You get a thousand degree metal fire that produces toxic gasses and can't be extinguished by water. See the following...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jjAtBiTSsKY&feature=related