Reply #18: They are impractical for one reason: They don't work for everybody. Just 90% of us.

[A HERETIC I AM]

The fact is, most people that use a car as a commute vehicle could easily use a car that only gets 100 miles from a charge. Drive to work, plug it in, when you come out you have a fully charged car.

I understand your point but much of what you point out is taken up in the movie and explained in great detail. Also, Hydrogen is not the panacea that many make it out to be. Much of the hydrogen that will be used will come from fossil fuels anyway so we end up replacing one finite source with another, not to mention that promoting hydrogen allows the oil companies to keep their fingers in the transportation pie instead of allowing electricity producers (the production of which can be renewable and sustainable) to enter into that market. Hydrogen will only become practical when there is an efficient way to extract it from seawater. The answer to that is Nuclear Fusion but that is still a long way off.

It isnt a "Huge Conspiracy", no. Just one large enough to remove a completely viable vehicle from American roads that was gaining acceptance and was on the cusp of surpassing expectations.

BTW, the cost of a NiMH battery has been coming down steadily, so the idea that a decent electric car has to cost eighty grand is a 2001 era fact, not a 2007 fact.