So...you say you want to buy an electric car?
67Dart273 , MY POINT is for members here to ASSESS how they use there vehicles .
But that's not the reality.
The reality is that folks will let their "thinking" actually do their thinking.
I have a neighbor around here somewhere with a Leaf. He does 20 mph in a 55 zone to make sure he has enough battery to get him to town twenty minutes away with almost continuous hills and then run his errands to be able to get back home.
There's no infrastructure built in in the area for him to be able to run at speed with all the hills and keep his battery up to be able to do his running. No stops along the way to recharge.
He wasn't assessing his vehicle needs, he was assessing the idea he wanted to be "green" and didn't think beyond that.
And that's where the conversation ends. People aren't "thinking" at all.
And, I'm sorry to say, you can back up a bit with the assessing needs, considering you actually brought a lot of what's being addressed to the table, especially with the comment about Musk putting "his" money up for the charging stations. That was an assumption on your part. That's "our" money Musk is using.
So, are you assessing that or...?
