Electric Car California: Audi Classic Archive 006: Camille Jenatzy and milkmen discovered, electric vehicles can go a long way slowly or a short way fast, but not both. Jenatzy’s Jamais Contente had to have its batteries re-charged before it could do another Kilometre.. In 1990 California demanded 1.5m electric cars by 2000, seven in every ten by 2010. Faced with not selling cars there you would have thought the world’s car industry would have managed something by now. Alas, laws of physics and chemistry don’t allow electricity to be stored by the tankful. Audi’s response to California’s wish list, detailed in The Sunday Times of 14 January 1990