Where's "A Better Place" in all this?

In June, the federal Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Anthony Albanese, announced that the government would be buying 40 imported Mitsubishi i-Miev electric vehicles as a way of encouraging the uptake of electric vehicles.

via theage.com.au

There were a whole slew of announcements from these guys http://australia.betterplace.com/ about a year ago - and I was looking forward to my next car being one of their swappy electrical dealies. And nothing’s happened. Now the government is importing a bunch of Mitsubishis.