But for the batteries, they interviewed a guy who has multiple patents to his name that have made huge money in multiple fields. He had battery technology that he sold to GM for -- he thought -- the EV1 program. As soon as they owned the rights, they shut down the factory and stopped R&D.

"General Motor's Ken Stewart says few people wanted a car that had to be plugged in every hundred miles or so."

No, and red herring. The EV1 could go 200 miles on a charge when it first shipped, up to 300 by the end of the program. So "every hundred miles or so" was fudging the truth. And every time someone tried to get on the waiting list, someone from GM would call them and do a "survey" with questions designed to turn them off.

Such as: "Would you be willing to have as your only vehicle a car that can't tow a trailer? How happy would you be having to stop every hundred miles to charge a car for several hours?" Only after doing the survey could you put your name on a list. Yet somehow thousands of people still got on the list. What other car do they try to talk you out of?

If it sounds like a conspiracy theory, they present quite a bit of evidence that there was, in fact, a conspiracy.