I've never knew about this but in 1996, there already existed cars who were quiet, reached more or less 140km/h and didn't need any kind of gasoline...
But why is there the need to destroy them all and the project for future building? In 2005 the last electic car was destroyed and it's hardly confidencial who destroyed them and why...
Well, I think we all got the answer of the "why" question: fuel gives those rich guys so many money, that if the electic car owns the population, they wont win no more... And they don't care about the pollution problem which the fuel car is causing...
The electirc car project was destroyed in argue between the car companies and the government, as USA is gets a lot of financial import due to the fuel production they have and so, the electric car was a treath for the economy of america...
I hope the US government will accept the responsibility for this unethical action of the destuction of the enviornement...
Now I ask... why shoudn't any european enterprise remake this technology, were no stupid Bush have the right to destroy it?
Sony Pictures is producing a documentary about it, this is not a copy/paste blog, but you can find more info here:
http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/