Before the electric car was more seen and heard of, now you will rarely even hear about it. What gives?
Imho, oil hit 200+ dollars per barrel, Iraq happened...and US foreign policy finally caught up with us in a bad way.
Of course, China's massively rising consumption of Oil helped to create a hugely important drive to find alternative energy...then there's the whole food supply issue where a ton of corn, etc, is now being used for fuel instead of food.
Battery storage technology isn't up to par yet. Once it is, goodbye to gasoline powered cars.
Electric motors are much more efficient than gasoline engines, simpler (less moving parts), easier to repair/replace, and quicker when it comes to acceleration (given similar size). It just makes more sense.
Several Plug-In-Electric Cars will be seen in dealers by different makes by year end.
It is much more expensive, and much slower, so unfortunately it went out of fashion
They Are Still Out Just Its Bit a lot
