I own a 730 HP V12 Ferrari and I'm watching Tesla with great interest and appreciation. Any time a "disruptive innovator" enters a market, good things happen for everyone. Like it or not the days of the internal combustion engine are coming to an end. Time and good engineering will take what we have today from battery powered cars and eventually turn it into something awesome that even Ferrari guys and gals will love. Will I miss the roar of a V12? Yes but I'll get over it if the car is lightning quick, neutral handling and gorgeously designed. I miss vinyl records and tube amps but I don't buy them because the follow on products appeal to me more.
The evolution of the electric motor has begun. Until now very little has changed in the past century. Give it 10 years and the size, weight, torque, efficiency et al will be orders of magnitude improved. All the super car marques will wean their customers off of ICE's and onto electric by offering hybrids first then eventually full blow electric only. The legacy guys (like me) who love the sound and rumbles of the big engines will all be in retirement homes driving walkers by this time so we will be irrelevant. The next generation having grown up with electric cars will obsess over them. Maybe even high end audio and electric cars will converge! You can reproduce the sound of a V12 in 124bit resolution and pipe it into the cockpit to please the old school crowd.
Anyway, Bravo Tesla for going where no one has gone before. Elon Musk is an alien come to earth to save us from ourselves.
Rant concluded.
Cincy