Obviously, no effort at all was exerted in market research or any study of the necessary infrastructure that MUST be in place before the technology can stay abreast of the potential demand.
Battery-powered EVs are a technological dead end. If only somebody could come up with a design in which the electric traction motors could be powered with an on-board electric generation system, say an internal combustion engine driving a DC electric generator, which in turn provides the electricity that powers the drive wheels. It works just fine on rail lines that use Diesel-electric locomotives.
Of course, that is not “carbon neutral” but the present design using batteries that are made of exotic materials that are mined from the earth, at great cost and use of carbon-based fuels for the extraction, refining, fabrication and transportation of the batteries to end point of consumption, to be recharged from time to time with electricity that is generated by, you guessed it, carbon-based fuels that are FAR from “carbon-neutral”. Face it, the industrial base of the world shall rely on carbon-based fuels, in some manner, for most industrial processes for decades if not centuries to come.
Great idea! They could call it a "Prius".
AND uses regenerative braking to convert the kinetic energy to potential energy in the battery.
Somebody should get right on that.
I would start with the engineering department at Hanna Barbera. They pioneered transportation technology for several societies; all the way from The Flintstones to The Jetsons.
We burned a bonfire today. The nearby trees enjoyed the yummy Carbon dioxide.