Well, far be it from us to not do the experiment. Last week we picked up the wife's new BMW i3. Yesterday we had a 240V outlet installed in the garage and now she has fast overnight charging available.
So far so good. It was a bit of a pita before getting the fast charger as her work commute takes about the whole battery and on 120V it is about 18 hours to fully recharge. Now it is about 3-4 hours. The range extender is seamless. There is an app that allows you to check charging status, location, gives you trip statistics, and enables remote locking, horn blast, and you can turn on the climate control before you get to the car (or set it to automatically happen). The adaptive cruise control is, in her words, "made for the 405." Stop and go traffic is way less annoying.
I've only driven it once - and like on the test drive, it remains a hoot. We're keeping my X1 for the time being as doing long road trips on the i3 would be a challenge. Public infrastructure isn't there and with the increase in electric cars in CA, open chargers are getting harder to find depending on the location. But if you've got a level 2 charger at home and/or work, for commuting it is a pretty cool solution.
And somehow we ended up as an all BMW household...first pic is someone else's car - a professor from main campus who was out at our work for a meeting. Others are my wife's car with my car as reference, as well as the GS.
