Not within your required performance envelope. They are within the required performance envelope of millions of people. If you do not want an electric car then please feel free to not buy one.
Are they?
Where are the millions of people clamouring to buy them?
Please don't take this personally. I'm not insulting you, nor am I insulting electric cars.
I'm pointing out an objective measure of what sort of performance people actually want/need, based on what they buy. If the designers and builders of electric cars want to sell millions of cars, to be a major player in the market, that's the kind of performance they need to put on the showroom floor.
The EV1 was an interesting experiment, establishing a baseline measure of "production" electric car performance. It was also carried out more than 10 years ago. Battery technology and motor technology have improved since then, and the wide acceptance of hybrid cars will support continued improvements in both. I'd be interested in seeing how an "EV2", using 2010 rather than 1999 technology, would perform. I'm sure it would be closer to the Corolla/Civic/Focus/etc performance envelope. I think I can also predict its weaknesses.
BTW, I asked some questions in my last post. They were meant to be information-seeking, not combative. Would you please be so kind as to address them?