Limited range. Long charge time. Diminishing battery strength with each charge. Battery drains faster when heating the cabin in winter and cooling in the summer. High price. Need for a new battery after so many charges. Nowhere to charge up. Limited capacity of load and passengers.
Aside from that, it’s a great idea.
Don’t forget, when the battery is exhausted at 30 miles, you can switch to the ICE. It’s a plug-in hybrid.
So you have the privilege of paying for two powerplants in the car: the batteries + electric motor and the ICE. Might be easier to tow a spare car around town.
we have no where to plug the battery in at our home our garage is not used for parking it is used for storage and our laundry is in the garage so are we supposed to run a
cord outside to our car parked on the street only to have it used by other people who park in front of our house not a good idea.
In California where I live my electric provider PG&E gives you a baseline allotment each month of your kilowatts ours is 338 and we use about 580 each month. They put you on a tiered system from 100-101% of your baseline, 101-130
130-200% and so on each bracket has a different and higher cost the 100-101 was .12 cents a kwh and the 130-200
was .29 cents a kwh. If I had to charge the battery every day it would add about 200 more kwh to my electri bill each month and I would be in the 300% baseline bracket which is even more than I listed above.\
I don't want a car that I can't drive where I want when I want and I don't want a car which would force me to use public transportation because my car does not work for my needs.
Obama and his friends have a magical idea of science. He probably doesn’t know one end of a test tube from another.
Add “max battery energy stored is approximately equal to one gallon of gasoline” to your list. I think most people don’t fully appreciate how little range these things have on battery.