The batteries are NASTY and you can not buy a replacement set if you wanted to. Where do the owners thing the electricity at the charging stations comes from? How big of a load is there on the power grid when everyone gets home from work and plugs their car in. I saw a video of a service company that goes out to save stranded electric cars with dead batteries. The charge them with a diesel powered generator.

"I wonder if God created man because he was disappointed in the monkey?" Mark Twain