It is a mistaken idea that electric cars are self powered and self generating all just consume fairy dust all green ya know. No damn idea of the horrid means to make the batteries or they must be powered up by another source like plugging it into a petroleum consuming power source. A cute joke I read = "So when your electric car runs out of juice in middle of desert or a snowstorm do you walk to nearest juice station to pick up a bucket of juice to bring back and power it back up?"