The really stupid thing about this or any electric car is that the environmental "savings" are a farce. Because of economies of scale the resources used to create an electric car are more taxing to the environment than the creation of conventional cars. Add to that environmental damage done with the creation and disposal of batteries, the efficiency losses of power transmitted over distance and the fact that, with the exception of a very tiny percentage of the whole, all of the electricity used has been generated with carbon based systems.
The fact is that if there isn't a demand for something, a real consumer driven demand, then it doesn't make sense to do it no matter which angle you look from.
Recycling is another feel good environmental theme which almost always causes more harm than good in the big picture. If you don't get paid to recycle something (like, say, copper and aluminum) then it shouldn't be done. Recycling glass is probably the biggest boondoggle of them all. There is a staggering cost to recycle glass. It has to be sorted by color, any paper or plastic labeling removed, then washed and then crushed before it can go into a kiln to produce fresh glass. All this to avoid creating virgin glass from one of the cheapest and most plentiful substances on Earth...silica or sand, as most people call it. Paper is almost as bad for the environment to recycle. And yet we do both of them to make some people feel good about themselves.
But electric cars as environmental saviors are just as bad. They do not help the environment one bit and almost certainly harm it when you step back and look at the whole process of making and then using them.
