I traded in the sports car for a Chevy Volt this year. With regular charging the only gas I will burn will be for road trips. The experience for me was like going from dial up to broadband. Gas cars now seem antiquated in comparison.

I don't know this for a fact...
but looking at battery advances (e.g. lithium peroxide though there are many others),
in 2 to 3 years when the Model III comes out,
there should be plenty of range and a good 10 years of battery life (of about 80% I would hope).
No worries about heat up here to ruin batteries.

I've heard Tesla does it's own recycling of batteries to minimize waste.
The roadster batteries were 97% recyclable, not sure about the model S.

By 2016, tesla's supercharging network will be within easy range of my home,
and I can drive all the way to the coast and up and down it with ease.
That's where most family and friends are, so that is why I'm probably,
depending on advances, going to go with the Model III (35 to 40K).
They use salt and sand mix on the roads up here, so in 10 years your looking at a new car anyways.
I don't mind a 20 to 30 min break every 3 hours anyways,
keeps the blood clots moving

Not a huge fan of hybrids,
some ICE cars get as good a mileage.
When they start plugging in like the volt though,
People start planning their driving around town to only use electric.
To me it's a stopgap measure.
I think that pure electric with 500 mile range and batteries that dont lose as much capacity,
it will be a no brainer.
Like solar as the price drops it will become everywhere.

That 150 Mile range has been kicking around for the 2016 Leaf.
Still at the rumour stage, and GM says the volt range, or at least battery density,
should double or more within a couple three years.
If I was in a hurry to get an electric I would for sure consider the volt,
but other than the 2015 smartfortwo electric which is quite a bit cheaper,
I'll probably wait and see what is coming down the road.
First I have to find out if the condo board will ever consider putting in (or letting people put their own in) chargers.
The electric will be a commuter car, needing to go 36K round trip.

So I've been snooping around my old house (over the internet) and I've noticed that so far that 6KW solar system has produced 12.2 Megawatts of power. In April actually produced 867 KW of power! Now that Elon Musk has unveiled the home battery backup system, electricity savings for those who have different rates at different times makes it worth throwing one or two on the wall.
To those with the chevy volt, have been considering one. I currently have a smart electric drive, but considering replacing the rogue with a volt or tesla... (the cheaper model 3).
We sold the rental unit and put 35K away toward the tesla when it comes out. Tesla superchargers are now (not in 2016 like I previously posted) in range of my home. I can now drive from Alberta to the west coast and down to California FREE on the supercharger network. Well I can when I buy one...
Next year or so they should have the chargers heading into Montana, then I can connect up with the network crossing the country. In good weather it looks like I could actually skip over a supercharger station. Or just drive really fast between them
There is a stretch of the highway that is up to 120KM if I remember correctly (that's about 80 MPH) At that speed there would be no skipping stations. If you figure a 45 min stop to charge, it actually makes more sense to drive slower if you can skip a stop. Not to mention uses less energy which is kinda the point to this. Enuf nattering, later peoples.
Edit: corrected megawatts to 12.2