I own a Leaf—best damn auto I’ve ever owned. I don’t care what anybody says.
I work in this industry. Infiniti is coming out with a car that will partner with Tesla and have a battery range of over 300 MPC (miles per charge).
It’s inevitable that a truck will be out soon enough with battery technology.
What’s not to like? While you pump gas weekly several times, change the oil, change spark plugs, maintain your rusty old transmission—I’m just plugging up and rotating tires.
For the foreseeable future, leasing would be the best option. The batter is like a cellphone battery and as it ages loses serious charge past two years. They’re working on this and I think a good solution will present itself soon enough.
What happens *after* 300 miles?
If you’re far from home, do you just sit there and wait for it to charge up again?
Well with the $7500 federal and (?) state tax subsidy, the economics can work. Without these and the various state mandates, I don't think we'd see much in the way of sales.