Time Magazine: "They all want to know, ‘What’s that? Where can I get one?’ " says Kaufmann, a home contractor and self-taught electric vehicle, or EV, enthusiast. By some accounts, the next 10 years will see as many as 1.6 million electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles zipping around the state, in what is shaping up to be the nation’s e-car proving ground. But in the 1990s a similar optimism hit here too, only to fizzle as gas prices plummeted and gas-guzzling SUVs took over the auto market with a …