This story/headline at the WSJ seems to have been posted before, but with now updated content. Its fairly even keeled, focusing on the cost/phsyics issues. Her

This story/headline at the WSJ seems to have been posted before, but with now updated content. Its fairly even keeled, focusing on the cost/phsyics issues. Here is a relevant summary: At $10,000 a car, the costs of a 100-mile range battery are still prohibitive for a mass-market car, even if gasoline’s superiority in range and refueling aren’t taken into account. This is one reason why General Motors Co . is rolling out a Cadillac version of its Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, following Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk’s strategy of compensating for the high cost of lithium-ion batteries by marketing his electric car as an alternative to a Porsche. If you want more than 1% of the market to be electric cars, you start by selling to the 1%.