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>> “That gave people the impression that engineering/ride/look of the Tesla S was pretty solid.” <<
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Total strawman!
That was never the question.
The Tesla is a fine, solid toy, suitable for those wealthy enough to absorb its cost and lack of long distance emergency functionality with a shrug because it is cute and fun.
For a one car family, no plug-in totally electric car will ever be an acceptable or wise choice. A conventional liquid re-fuelable vehicle will always out-perform an electric plug-in when all aspects of transportation are taken into consideration.
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The Tesla is a fine, solid toy, suitable for those wealthy enough to absorb its cost and lack of long distance emergency functionality with a shrug because it is cute and fun.
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Actually, the internal combustion engine car started out as a toy for the wealthy. Henry Ford came out with the model T. Mass production brought car prices down far enough for much of the US driving public.That’s actually the model that Tesla is working off of. They’re currently a high end car. In three years they plan to come down to 35 K for the Tesla S—which is high end for the middle class. They’ll do that by way of mass producing car batteries that do 260 miles on a charge. I think in three years the miles@charge will be about 300. That’s still pricy for much of the driving public. But the direction of pricing for electric cars is downward.