I saw a movie on the cable TV called 'who killed the electric car', seems a bit relevant to this posting. The Verdict was the car makers & oil companies were responsible. Example was an American company making batteries for electric cars. They were bought by an oil company to stop them putting the batteries into cars, which would have tripled the range. All sounds a bit conspirital, but it seemed that the cars had been nobbled. In fact somebody was doing a show on crushing old cars for enviromental reasons & found they were crushing brand new electric Honda's. & to think that Nicola Tesla went to Westinghouse around 1900 with a plan to make the planet a huge battery & all you had to do was plug you're appliance into the ground.Seeing as the power couldn't be charged to the consumer, Westinghouse didn't take him up on the idea. Gee the cars just run out of juice, I'll just plug into that lawn over there.