In a review of an Audi electric prototype, Los Angeles Times auto critic Dan Neil says he has high hopes for Tesla Motors, which may build an electric sedan in Downey or Long Beach, but he's not sure if it has much of a future once established luxury brands get into the market. Neil, a Pultizer Prize winner, also has kind words for Fisker, another California electric car company, but he cannot see the upstarts competing too well against the giants of the auto world:
Predicting their demise is not the same as wishing for it, and I do hope that Fisker and Tesla survive and thrive. I just don't see how. Ironically, the explosive growth in the e-car market might be the very thing that does them in.
