Sorry my Interwebs was down yesterday
I recently purchased some old car magazines. I didn’t buy them for this reason, but it turns out that three of them have articles on electric cars. One is from the late 1960s and lauds Ford’s new electric show car, a model that never made it into production. Another is from the 1950s and is about an electric Chrysler that is soon to be sold. But, the Chrysler story is another big whopper. No such Chrysler was ever sold. The interesting thing about their proposed model was that it had a turbine gasoline engine as well as electric motors. It was not unlike the now popular (in the US, but not at all in Europe where apparently people can do math and figure out it will cost them a lot more than a modern VW Golf diesel), Prius hybrid. The third article was about the electric car that was going to take over the world, the GM EV1. That pathetic mess never worked right at all, much less did it transform modern cars.
Apparently, there has been a big joke going on between car makers and the public except only the car makers get the joke. The customers are just not stupid enough to pay twice as much for a car that is twice as much trouble. Electric cars are simply not very practical. Back to the drawing board or back to the prayer chamber to see if God will rewrite the laws of physics. Sorry.
Here is an article about the new Chevy Volt and Prius PHV, both of which plug in to run on household electricity.