We had electric cars back in the very early 1900s, and they were a fad back then, and are a fad now. The whole concept is going nowhere, except spending trillions of Taxpayer monies to subsidize crap companies, in the Solyndra model of Obummer&Co.
“We had electric cars back in the very early 1900s, and they were a fad back then, and are a fad now.”
Japan sold electric cars right after WWII, due to shortages of gasoline. Once gasoline became widely available, the electric cars went away. The Tama was the forerunner of the Nissan Leaf sold now.
https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/HERITAGE/tama_electric.html