>> due to poor customer demand and lack of government support for the
>> environmentally friendly cars.
>
> Right, like subsidized electricity to run them. How cool is that? No
> emissions _from the car_ but let's burn up a bunch more coal to fill the
> batteries with electricity. And get someone else to pay for it. Bleah,
> no thanks.
All extremely valid criticisms, though given the efficiency of electric motors, the cars had a greater ratio of miles driven per unit of fossil fuels burned, even taking electrical transmission losses into account.
And gasoline is heavily subsidized as well.
-- Chris Clarke | Editor, Faultline http://www.faultline.org | California's Environmental Magazine