A few charge point rich cities and then some “electronic corridors” connecting the cities. The first planned corridor would be the 100 mile stretch between Phoenix and Tucson with others to follow.

Might make for a decent article on the site….

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/919055.html

The four seater Nissan Leaf will supposedly have a range of 100 miles on battery power. And sell for something around $25k. (No official price yet.)

I’d put my money on the Leaf as being the more commonly accepted EV by the general public.

This link should take you to a page with the section on “ultra efficient vehicles”: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:6:./temp/~c111HtdDxN:e86393:

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Twenty two hours a day is not unreasonable if we are talking about vehicles used to commute to job/school and outlets are available in both places. Drive to, plug in.

$1,500 per year would make it worthwhile for most, I would imagine. Average US driver at 12,000 miles per year, 0.25 kWh per mile, $0.105 kWh average US electricity price would spend about $315 to fuel their car. I would think most of us would take a moment to plug in at work if someone paid us $100 or so a month and bought our “gas” do do so.

Wear and tear on the batteries are left out of this equation. That could swing things toward the negative perhaps. Shallow discharges may not put much strain on battery life, just don’t know.

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When it comes to large dollar purchases such as a new vehicle I think most people are a little conservative. Not many of us have a few tens of thousands of dollars for an impulse buy.

The Aptera is weird looking. (Sure some will like its weirdness, but I suspect them a small minority.) It’s electric, which is a huge departure from what we’ve driven for the last 100 years. And it’s got three wheels, not four.

It might be the very best car offered in terms of cost to drive. But I’ll bet that something that looks more normal while ‘not quite as good’ will sell better. Look at the people turned off by the looks of the Prius.

Of course there are issues with the time of day etc, and if they expect (a lot of us) us to be hooked up 22 hours (!!!) a day, then it means these batteries are saving the grid system a great deal of costs from cycling its load at the generators and doing so for free with the addeded battery life problems…I’ll take mine “in the hood”, off grid, thank you. It seems more under my control

3 wheels aceptable? Well, it must be there for the zap too, if thats been announced. Politicians never make mistakes as they read the fine print and go over it with all those fine tooth combs…The Zap, imho, is a rather much flimsier proposition that Aptera, which it seems to be I am one of the very few admirers of. Sure its a little bigger than my ideas, but why is Everyone so tradition bound on form?