No thanks as I said no more than 20k plus it's got to meet all seven of my requirements. What's a Tesla s these days best part of 100k ? Utterly ludicrous. Never go mainstream until you fix all in my list.

Edited by Ethan Edwards on 01/12/2015 at 00:00

Too expensive. I don't spend 250k on a car. It needs to be 20k

Totally Insufficient range I need minimum of 150 miles with lights and heater air con and in car entertainment.

Weird looks

Totally ridiculous recharge time. No more than 10 minutes

No support infrastructure out here in the real world. Outside the cities..where I choose to live.

No perceived taxation benefit to me a private motorist.

No hov lanes or other stuff I could gain from near me. Free dart crossing might be good?

Too expensive - costs will come down in time.

Insuffcicient range - ranges of electric only cars are improving.

Weird looks - depends on the car. Some electric cars are just the standard car without a normal engine.

Charge time - they have certainly come down...and who know 10 mins could well be possible.

No support infrastructure - that will come. When the first cars came out there were no petrol stations.

No tax benefit - why do you require one?

Free stuff - you get free entry into London

By the time EV`s take off, cars wont be allowed into london, and if they are it will cost as much as it does now if not more

there seems to be a lot of tech being researched for batteries and fast charging but they are a long way off yet, I still reckon Hybrid is the way forward or Hydrogen fuel cell, not full EV`s too much power required to charge

So HMG expect us to buy an expensive thing, store it for a couple of decades, whilst the world may (or may not) fix all of the above, and in the meantime pay them (via IPT) and the Insurance companies for the privilege? Because it's compulsory to Insure it even if it's locked away in a Garage. Oh and buy and run another vehicle (to use) in the meantime.

Hard to see why that isn't mainstream already isn't it. Pie in the Sky isn't a sustainable business model unless your some kind of Climatologist.

For the people eulogising the Tesla Model S...ok so it has five seats. Large Hatch / Estate version for my RC airplanes? Nope....NFG for me then is it. Nice high driving position (and maybe switchable 4wd?) would be more useful to me than flashy bits.

So for most Non City users (and thats the majority of us ) Full EVs might work in 20 years but as of now ....for me... 'Mostly useless' .

Now Hybrid - yep that works for me.

But unlike some on here as a former Hybrid owner I have carefully avoided coflating the two. A Hybrid is a normal car with EV assist. A full EV is completely different. Analagous to a WW2 Uboat and a Polaris Nuclear sub. Yes both subs but not interchangeable by any means.

And spud...I sold the Toyota Hybrid in September..just how old are you to recall Austin Cambridge's.

Edited by Ethan Edwards on 03/12/2015 at 13:31