http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/376339-cool-electric-vehicle-links.html
The above link is from 2007.
Many of those companies are out of business for lack of funding, but if the government actually wanted to get electric vehicles on the road, they would have had plenty of options besides GM.
GM is actually an anti-electric car company.
From buying up electric trolleys on the 50's though Intercity Lines, to the EVI bait-and-switch fiasco, to buying marketshare in Ovtronics(NiMH patent holder) and then suing to stop the sale of vehicle sized batterys, GM has done its best to stop the progress of electric vehicles.
Irony.....or something more evil and sinister? Only the shadow government knows.