Large Tesla Battery

John & Angela wrote:
....and when an electric car can go 500 miles at one shot and then be filled up in 5 minutes then they will buy one...

Well ... there is another catagory of folks. ;)

I'm not hungup at all on "gas powered" personal vehicles. What I am a fan of are personal vehicles that:

1. Have a range of 400 miles on up (and way longer for RV vehicles).

2. Can be refueled everywhere in a maximum of around 15 minutes at stations with several refueling points so you don't have to wait to get at one.

3. Allow you to sit at a fast food restaurant's parking lot eating in your vehicle for 20 minutes with the air conditioning running in scorching weather when you don't feel dressed up enough or have joints well enough to want to sit inside on hard chairs around adults and kids.

4. Do the same as above in freezing weather.

5. Have a butter-smooth, well controlled ride like the large sedan we have that is at the same time versatile enough for both daily errands and long non-RV road trips.

6. Allow you to sit for hours in unexpected traffic jams with either the heat on or the air conditioning on while still having plenty of travel range left after the jam clears.

7. Can carry two or more people in the rear seats with gobbs of foot room for them, while still having a cavernous truck for 4 or more passengers' stuff.

8. Can, on an emergency basis, get quickly refueled along the road using a compact refueling source ("gas can") carried in the trunk.

9. Aren't likely to require - if one wants to keep their's for 20 years - finding and affording a large and maybe specific type of battery in a particular form factor.

General purpose electric vehicles that meet at least the requirements above are the Name of the Game before I would "go electric" for even our daily driver. Thank goodness for more and more early adopters - if that's what it's going to take to properly replace what we have available today in good-old gas fueled personal vehicles.