Hype Machine: Searching for ZAP's Fleet of No-Show Green Cars
It is a very long article but well written and the illustrations are a gas (no pun intended). It was written in 2008 and gives a good overview of the electric car market, complete with con-artists and assorted dupes. It was available for reading by all the rubes who got taken in by this guy in Salinas.
This is like Twentieth Century Motors in Atlas Shrugged, except that , that company had been successful at one time