I have just done a search on electric vehicles and there is one coming out at the end of this year that is the size of a mini, looks reasonably cool and costs substantially less than what you are claiming.
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Motor-show--events/Paris-Motor-Show/2008/Pininfarina-B0-at-the-Paris-motor-show-2008/
This is what I have been banging on about, it's going to be mass produced which is what brings costs down (batteries). I think you have been proved wrong, the cost £18,000 for a complete car is substantially less than £30,000 for just the battery, which you keep banging on about.
Also the main point that I have tried to make is that the car companies haven't done anything proactive, by this I mean thinking ahead to where the market might be and what fuel we will be using. Have a look at this link and tell me how many of them electric vehicles that are soon to be available come from America. You will notice that BMW have done what I have been banging on about and are releasing a fully electric mini. But where are Ford? Where is their electric vehicle?
If this electric vehicle takes off then Ford and the others only have themselves to blame for missing the boat.
You reap what you sow as they say and it's very true.
And finally check out this one
http://www.greencarsite.co.uk/comingsoon/lightning-car-company.htm
0-60 in 4 seconds and it takes 10 minutes to charge up off a domestic power supply and lasts for 250 miles. Yes the cost is very high at £150,000 but who is naive now as you put it - 'but I think you are very naive about the levels that technology have reached' - this proves that I was not naive after all because the technology is there.
Chris.
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