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Personally, I can see an electric car in my future, for city driving. My Macan sucks great gobs of gas in stop and go driving, and the manual Boxster is a pain in the left knee in that kind of traffic. However, I am fortunate that a) I have a house and b) my garage is already wired for 40A 230V (welding hobby).
I attended a talk on the electrical system (Ontario, with some focus on Toronto), and the grid is a major issue. Evidently the system in Toronto can handle about three electric vehicles per sub transformer, before they need to upgrade the transformers and grid. Humans being humans do not charge overnight, they charge when they get home from work, during peak demand time, in case they want to go out at night. Then I consider the mass number of condos and apartment buildings (Toronto and vicinity probably have more than most areas) that do not have charging stations in the garage. For a 200 unit building (not all that uncommon) it would probably run $5,000 per charging station, plus a transformer upgrade, so say $1-1.5MM to provide charging for everyone in the building. I wonder who will pick those costs up? Areas with street only parking are another issue. Public charging is probably a convenience for when you are out and about, but for daily/weekly charging they would become an inconvenience fairly quickly.
I am curious to see how the Mission E turns out though.
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