Time: early electric car one of 50 worst of all "time"

"Time" has chosen the General Motors EV-1 as one of the fifty worst cars of all-time. "Time," that bastion of creative journalism and rampant tree-hugging, finds the 1997 electric car from Detroit was too expensive to build and not ready for the mass market.

What the rag mag does not deal with: General Motors only made the EV-1 to comply with a temporary California state requirement. The California requirement was rescinded under heavy pressure from major car-makers like GM and Honda. The public was NEVER allowed to own the cars, so all leases were cancelled and evidence that electric cars once rolled the Golden State were collected and crushed. The mag does hint at the anti-GM doc. "Who Killed the Electric Car?" That, BTW, was released last summer and the movie website indidcates it's no longer playing in theatres.

CNET's Michael Kanellos recently took a look at what really did in the electric car. He concludes there were lots of obstacles and few were overcome, so we await the new, promised generation of electric cars. Kanellos's commentary generated a lot of argument so this is clearly an issue that matters to techies and drivers in general.

Once again, here's a gallery of current electric cars. Give me a bonus point for that pun, please.

Now, shall we take nominees for the fifty worst magazines of all time?