Electric Cars Bite The Dust ... Again?

8 October 2002 - 2:00pm

Why have electric cars failed?

"For as long as anyone can remember, the emission-free battery-powered car has been touted as a cleaner, greener alternative to the dirty old internal combustion engine. In all but a handful of exceptions, that vision remains resolutely on the drawing board. And now there are grave doubts whether it will ever go any further."

Source: BBC News, October 8, 2002
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.