[Captain Ahab Jr]

I think the big motor manufacturers are being very cautious as each one doesn't want to blaze the E trail that will cost them billions rather than earn them billions before most people have accepted electric cars are viable transport.

At the moment in the UK the infrastructure is not there to support using an electric car as more than an A to B commute car so the majority of buyers are buying to be seen to be green or for the novelty value.

If the big companies want to sell electric cars to the younger generation then they need to be less conservative with the styling and make them cooling looking. A Nissan Leaf or Renault Zoe is about a boring as a car can be made to look. Tesla on the other hand and the BMW i cars are good looking cars.

I'm going to carry on driving my 20yr old 3.0ltr diesel 4x4 for at least the next 10yrs, in that time the average new electric car owner will probably be on their 3rd car and will have filled the planet with more pollution than my old smoker belges out while I chug around with a pitiful 280 mile range between stopping for 5 mins to fill up.

Someone needs to set a around the world record for an electric car, the comparison of how long it takes compared to a fossil fuel car would be very telling, at the moment my guess it wouldn't be very close as once out of USA/Europe the only charging points will be out of a normal electrical wall socket