Here is a hint. Teslas are a prime example of designing what you could, not designing what you SHOULD.
When you get caught in a blizzard, on your way home from work, and it takes 6 hours to travel 30 miles because of the traffic, with your heater and defroster blasting, and wipers and lights going, and your radio going, and there was no place to charge your car at work, you are STILL going to get home? Physics beats smug, every time.
A little difficult to get caught in a blizzard in SoCal, but a friend of mine drove a Model S as a daily in Montréal and had no trouble with an hour commute.
“When you get caught in a blizzard, on your way home from work, and it takes 6 hours to travel 30 miles because of the traffic, with your heater and defroster blasting, and wipers and lights going, and your radio going, and there was no place to charge your car at work, you are STILL going to get home? Physics beats smug, every time.”
Hadn’t considered it, but that did happen to me and my family several years ago on Route 80, just inside California (Donner Pass), on a snowy New Year’s night, where traffic took hours as the CHP required chains. Luckily we had a FOSSIL FUEL car or we would have been frozen stiff (but, yes, it would have reduced our carbon footprint, drastically).