No, I stand by my original point. For modest savings in energy costs, generally eaten up by greater up-front purchase costs anyhow, you have real range issues, issues with cold, issues with having to worry about accessory usage, and difficulty in rapidly refilling the energy tank.

You imply in another of your replies that you appear to think it requires a 200 mile commute to have to worry about a 200 mile range. But that's not true. I live in Michigan. I have about a 30 mile commute, mostly highway. (Comments about how I should avoid that may be forwarded to /dev/null. I have my reasons and I've made my choice.) Tesla claims a 265 mile range. No problem, right? Well... dock some miles for that being a best-case marketing number, where I live in the real world. I need a round-trip, and can't count on being able to plug-in during the day. (Yes, that's easy now while plug-in stations are basically a gimmick. If electric cars take off, those stations will go poof. As it is they're nearly full up, and you know, one station is basically one car-day, not like a gas pump that serves dozens of cars per day.) Dock a significant percentage of the miles for the fact that yes, some days I have to go to work in 5 degree F weather. Dock some more miles for that fact that sometimes, not often, but often enough to plan on, my highway journey gets stuck for an hour in the aforementioned 5 degree weather, and I need to run the heater (or sometimes the AC on the other side). I'm forgetful, and I'd like to be able to go a day without plugging my car back in.

Suddenly the "265 mile" range doesn't seem so great anymore. It's at most barely adequate, with serious concerns of running out of juice on the highway at least once a year. By comparison, my average daily commute runs about a gallon and a half of gas. An electric car costs me much more than a non-electric and has a pay-back window in the multiple decades, ignoring battery replacement costs. No sale.

Of course, in an advocacy context it's easy to poo-poo all those concerns, or claim I'm overreacting. (For instance, "Be less forgetful." Yes, thank you, I've tried that. It works better to face the truth than try to simply deny it.) It won't matter, though, because I don't drive in an advocacy context, I drive in the real world, where "I get stuck in 5 degree weather" is not merely an abstract internet argument, but something that could be a real problem for me. Whereupon I will somehow stumble onto the local recharging station, only to discover that I'm 90th in line behind all the other people having the same problem because it simply isn't possible to recharge people as quickly as they can pump gas.

Put another order of magnitude on the battery efficiency, just for the sake of argument, and there's no problem anymore. Put a factor of 4 on there and I'm probably comfortable enough to consider it, though I'd still like a payback window of less than decades. As much as you might like to collapse my point to this, I'm not against electric cars, I would actually love to drive one that lived up to the hype. But as it stands right now, electric cars are just adequate for some of the less demanding use cases, and that's something that needs to be dealt with honestly, not by browbeating people into trying to pretend otherwise. It won't work; electric cars have to work in the real world, not people's heads.