-- Sam Taggart, "Blazing Saddles"
> An who really killed the EV1? ...Basic engineering, same as killed off the electrics of a hundred years ago. High initial expense, short range, long charge times, and expensive electricity.
People keep waiting for "someone" to come up with a cheap, nontoxic battery with sufficient capacity, but despite megabytes of press releases and funding requests, nobody has come up with one yet. Or antigravity, or teleportation, or even a practical jet back so you could fly around like 007...