[KaiserPro]

But they weren’t designed as a commuter car. THey were designed to deliver milk.

[ben_w]

I'm saying they couldn't have been designed as commuter cars: "neither the batteries nor the motors were up to being commuter vehicles".

Battery tech was way off on price/performance needed for commuting, until around Tesla happened: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

IIRC, similar issues with compact powerful electric motors, but I don't have a chart handy for that.