It is the battery technology John, some manufacturers admitting to that, Mitsubishi for example.
Would you shell out £4000 to £6000 every couple of years or less for new batteries?
If Ford haven't been able to achieve it, it's fanciful to think someone else can with part of their technology, or that they would grant part of a successful technology without exploiting it themselves, given their very poor commercial position at present. "Think" indeed, a certain irony in the name!
We are still at this limiting stage with our bikes, but since they only have to provide part of the propulsion power, they are viable. The cars aren't.
If you haven't read back, there's more in my various preceding posts on this since I've been trying to buy an electric car for years.
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