i'm not a neutral observer.
the Nissan dealership a half mile away was leasing 50 Nissan Leaf's a month last year. Tesla sells 50 new Tesla's a month in my immediate dealership marketplace. the Toyota dealership across the freeway was selling 140 Hybrids a month last year.
it's personal with me. even more than you as an owner of a Leaf.
and I view it as if i'm competing with my own tax dollars. on a dead technology. 'dead'...because the economic foundation that electric cars are built on is (1) direct tax subsidies, and (2) in-direct manufacturer legislated CAFE requirements. manufacturers take huge losses on electric cars to reach their CAFE requirements and simply build more of the less efficient more polluting cars. so your efforts to stay clean owning a Leaf are offset by the additional Nissan Titan trucks with V8's they can sell.
and all this attention to electrics, without the underlying technology to make it self supporting, just keeps the attention from other longer term solutions.
it's all smoke and mirrors with the electrics.
Your view is food for thought, thanks. I don't happen to agree, but as I noted, you are in the business, I am not. I am a consumer, and have a different perspective.
As I also noted, the foundation of our economy was derived from many subsidies, and the private sector then became self sufficient.