Our short History of EVs

Back in 2009 when the Nissan Leaf was first being announced I actually decided to get on the waiting list for it, put a refundable deposit down and waited.  The more I heard about targeted areas and everything the less it sounded like we'd be able to get our hands on one even with the deposit.  We decide to cancel the reservation, then we were able to test drive one at a local test drive event....we were seriously thinking we should have kept the reservation!  We got over that quickly because we just didn't see replacing one of our cars with a limited range EV working out, so we heard about Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) or also know as Extended Range Electric Vehicles (EREV) which were not limited to range due to having a gas engine to power if the battery runs out.  Since the PHEVs were coming out in the next few years we figured we'd just shelf the subject