Electric cars are being utilized all over the world (see this wikipedia article). They are a VERY powerful alternative to regular gasoline-guzzling cars, and in 1996, General Motors made a few Electric cars of their own (the EV1)... It was never publically available for sale -- only a few hundred people ever got to drive them.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of consumers had never heard of the electric car at the time. Oil companies supported efforts to kill the ZEV mandate (a mandate that would allow electric cars to be produced mainstream), as did large car companies. In 2006, a documentary "who killed the electric car" was released, which is well worth watching.
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