With all the talk recently of EV’s being tested in various countries and three models (Subaru R1e, Mitsubishi iMIEV, Nissan Denki Cube) potentially arriving in the US in just a few years, it’s worth revisiting once more the notion of how well such a product would be received here.
My longtime position has been that if you make even minimally reasonable assumptions about the vehicles–they’re safe, they’re as efficient as one would expect a small, all-electric vehicle to be, they’re affordable, and they don’t have any weird “gotcha” details–they’ll find millions of happy owners.