I ranted about the house over this earlier, until leda bonked me with a frying pan.
In fact, there are really GOOD electric cars - some of them, amazing in performance, better than any gas fired thing, etc.
For about six minutes, until the battery dies.
And that is the problem - batteries.
The guy who invents a good battery will be richer than Bill Gates.
I agree.
If batteries were so great they would launch the shuttle with them instead of 50 year old technology.
That would be a stack of batteries that would probably reach the stupid near Earth orbit of the "space station".