My thoughts are from 2 stances.
1. From an average consumer perspective it sounds super cool. That thought coming from the average persons mind. Something real neat, amazing technology, the idea that a battery and some motors can pull a trailer or better yet a $120k boat to the lake.
2. From a mechanically inclined and above average thinker it's wasted money and as much as double as bad for the environment to create it and knowing that studies they have done show it takes almost double the mileage to just break even with a diesel in the same model.
By then we have been conditioned as a flock of sheep to buy something new long before then. So it's just wasted energy to build. Factoring the costs of recycling a Li-poly battery.
Good friend of mine works locally for one of the leading Li-Ion suppliers and manufacturers in the world. Travels to these locations all the time. We talk about it over lunch a lot lately. It's amazing what the public doesn't know.
So I personally think the technology is still amazing but deep down I know that this is just a huge way to market a new product that makes money for a handful of 3rd world countries. Rather than doing any manufacturing here which is where we need help.
That meaning that all of the places on earth that the minerals are mined to make a Li-Ion battery are in 3rd world locations. Which is where the it will stay. Out of the eyes of the voting public.
So in conclusion, I work on Teslas all the time. About 2 a week and they are super cool. They are the space ships from the 50s commercials. I like their metal and paint qualities.
Aside from that I want no part in an electric vehicle movement.
