That is my issue.
I think electric cars are great, I think they are indeed the future. They are simpler in many ways, but until they can do the following, I would not buy one except as a novelty:
1.) Be manufactured and sold at competitive prices without a taxpayer subsidy of any kind.
2.) Have performance that is on par with vehicles in a similar class of internal combustion engine cars and still meet the following requirements.
3.) Have a range on a charge that is on par with typical internal combustion engines.
4.) Achieve that same range with a heater or air conditioner running the entire time.
5.) Achieve a battery life on par with the current average lifetime of a car before it is junked (not sold)
6.) Achieve a fast charge capability of a half hour or less, or alternatively, implement a system of fast swap of uniformly designed depleted battery packs with charged packs using a system so reliable and easy even a young child or old person could do it.
If these are met, I will buy one.
I will buy it because it makes personal and economic sense to me. If it cannot meet these standards, I am not buying it to fulfill the wishes of some Leftist jackhammer because they want to save Gaia, and I am most certainly not buying it to put money in the pocket of someone who took my money that I paid in taxes to the government in the first place.