I am hoping the price of batteries drops so much; buying a new battery for a used electric vechicle is trivial.

I will never go electric if I gave to fork out a huge some of money every 10 years for a battery. Right now, the longevity of batteries is looking better than I anticipated.

(I keep vechicles for 20 plus years, and do all my own maintance, and repair.)

Figure out where we're going to get the metals for all the batteries it will take to create the world these dreamers want. You'll soon see that the entire scheme is fantasy.

If it really were about shifting energy usage from fossil fuels to a "renewable" power grid, there would be an equal enthsiasm for electrifying all home and hot water heating.

There isn't, for two main reasons:

1. Making resistive elements in a box will not enrich any mineral companies, perputrate planned obselecence, nor maintain R+D departments.

2. It would be very easy and cheap to do, and when the resulting droves of people convert to electric heating, it would very quickly become apparent that our grid just cannot handle the extra load.

Nissan is intentionally building disposable cars for people of lesser means and credit scores.

I don't know where you got that info.

I wouldn't want to be the company out there that doesn't want to have low, and middle income, owners for their electric vechicles.

If Volkswagen didn't sell low priced, well engineered vehicles to the 99% of us struggling; we would not know their name today.

It's been in their public financial documents for 15yr now. They just wrap it up with softer words like "customers who prioritize value" to not offend white collar sensibilities. They're basically Chrysler of Japan. Nothing wrong with that. Someone's gotta sell those cars.

Someone has to sell reasonably priced cars to the masses.

If the other guys, especially Tesla, dosen't start going down this path; I can guarantee electric vechicles will be another footnote in history. (That might be too harsh? There will always be rich guys who don't mind overpaying for vechicles.)

Don't get me started on Chrysler. They are an old dying car company whom probally shouldn't have sold out to Fiat. Chrysler made some decent cars/trucks over the years. They are the example of a big stupid company.

With an electric car you are buying a electric motor, controller, computers, a bunch of sensors, actuators, and programming.

There is no reason to jack up the price. There will be a company that eventually put's Teslas to shame. We are at 2 months in to babies life.

I like Tesla's. I'm looking for a salvaged one to do a convert. There are a lot of guys like me who want an electric, but aren't paying for gimmicky stuff.