this looks like an interesting project but still a hybrid of sorts:
http://jalopnik.com/mississippi-states-lightweight-subaru-brz-hybrid-is-100-1771825421
but why has no-one else released a pure electric car with decent range? Nissan has the pathetic leaf, VW the pathetic Egolf, BMW's I3 I believe has a short range too... all aforementioned struggle to get 90 miles of range. I "get" the golf limits since it's designed as normal car and there's not as much room for batteries. The leaf seems like it was a new car (?), the I3 definitely... So tesla designed a floor made of batteries, that's one advantage... Why are those guys not even close to the tesla's 300 miles? is Tesla stuffing batteries in the seats? in the door pockets ??? it does not even seem to scale on size/weight - the S is not 3 or 4 times bigger than a Leaf... Where's the leap ? I'm surprised the big manufacturers have not even tried to compete with the model S on tje pure electric/fun segment, let alone the model 3 on range or performance... It cannot be proprietary tech, Tesla has open sourced all their stuff... Do they not believe in it ?