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Al, I have trouble seeing a society that prides itself on being unencumbered and free to roam turning around and stopping to charge their car after an hour of driving. It is just a truth of American culture.
Plenty of people have tried to sell similar things before, mostly without the marketing presence or federal subsidies of GM, and none of them found success. The styling and the principal can be as perfectly on point as you want, there is still no way that the average American is going to replace a car that they can dump the kids on the go into and drive anywhere with a sluggish, low range, over priced compact filled with weird new gadgets that their trusted mechanic can't fix.
That is the argument against before we even get into a discussion about battery life and service. How many people are going to leave the car in charge, uninterrupted for long enough to condition the batteries? How many cycles before the batteries go to crap? What landfill are you going to dump all the battery waste product in?
Electric vehicles are more of a novelty for the well to do, uber-hippy with no place to actually go than they ever will be for those of us who actually work for a living.
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