Not with the GOP in power it can't.
We all know the GOP is in bed with the oil companies, right? Just look at how the GOP fights for the oil companies. They dont want to stop speculation or close loopholes. They only want to give the oil companies more land. So then it makes sense that the GOP is against alternative energy, just like the oil companies. Why would they want alternatives to oil when they are in the business of selling oil?
So if you are a consumer of oil, you should not vote GOP, because they dont want alternative energy. They want you to be dependent on oil and pay $4 a gallon for gas, because thats good for the oil companies.
Sure the Dems take money from the oil companies too, but they actually try to stop the gouging, close the loopholes, end excessive speculation and even impose a windfall profit tax on the oil companies.
So basically the GOP killed the battery car.
The EV1 was the first modern production electric vehicle from a major automaker and also the first purpose-built electric car produced by General Motors (GM) in the United States.
Introduced in 1996, The EV1 electric cars were available in California and Arizona as a lease only, as well as through a Southern Company employee lease program in Georgia, and could be serviced at designated Saturn retailers. They were discontinued after 1999 and subsequently removed from the roads in 2003 by General Motors (except for a few). The car's discontinuation was and remains a very controversial topic.
a lengthy waiting list.[4] In mid 2000, GM closed the EV1 plant.
In late 2003, GM officially canceled the EV1 program.[12][13] Despite waiting lists and positive feedback from the lessees.
Instead of keeping the cars and allowing the currently built cars to be sold, the company elected to shred all of these cars after numerous promises to reuse them.