[CarZin]

This is the beauty of the Volt design. You don't need to deploy vast networks of chargers to quick charge. At some point, you have to ask the question, how much effort and money is it worth not to from time to time burn a gallon of gas. Leaf owners, when they ask me when I bother to lug around an engine I don't need very often get this reply: "because I'd rather haul around an inexpensive engine that gives me limitless range when I want it, than a battery pack that is twice as large as I need it to be and a lot more expensive that have limited range"

I think pure electric cars, until batterys are super cheap, are really a niche, more more so than a car like a Volt.

One step at a time...

 

[CarZin]

Elon is just a hyping machine. He is an innovator, but he has yet to produce an affordable electric car, and you aren't going to do much with helping people accept electric cars when they are going for 100k a pop.

I think General Motors, hands down, has this better figured out than anyone else. I don't want them to change a thing except to produce the Volt on a Crossover platform and a sports car platform. Hell, add it on a truck platform as well.

Think forwards, not backwards.

I am forward thinking. I wouldnt have been on this site since 2008 and have purchased a volt if I wasn't. I am in innovator in my own field. I simply see a logical series of steps for getting mass EV adoption, and I don't think quick charge stations are going to make adoption much better. When it comes down to it, people are scared of battery replacement costs. I think that is the number one barrier. Give it a few years, and we may be beyond that.