I suppose it's time for another round of "It'll never succeed because it only provides a solution to 80% of the people 80% of the time!" specious arguments.

I drive approximately 7 miles each direction to work. It'd work fine as an electric vehicle for me. It's a *hybrid*, BTW, meaning that if you go farther, or go faster the gasoline engine kicks in, so it'd be useful if you had to take a road-trip. (boring, but useful)

Not everybody drives 100+ miles per day anyway. Just because it doesn't suit your purposes, doesn't mean it's useless or pointless. The universe may seem to rotate around you as its axis, but it does not, actually.