Great read! 40 grand for any electric car seems way to steep of a financial curve to be user friendly, that said, look at Tesla's price tags of 50k and 100k per electric vehicle. As for cool concepts, the fact that when you run out of (electric) juice you can run on gogo(gas) juice is very cool, and factors in the fear and flaw with most all electric vehicles, that could leave you stranded for quite a few hours of charging time. The one thing I have never heard addressed on any sort of hybrid or all electric vehicle is environmental cost of producing the electricity they run on, and the battery metals both mining and recycling along with the longterm maintenance cost of electric vs. gas vehicles. It's easy to say electric is clean, no gas burned, no damage to ozone driving this "clean" vehicle, but conviently ignoring where the extra resources come from.