Unless someone comes up with some new miracle battery, electric cars are never going to make any sense. They can't handle cold weather, and they can't stand hard work. Gasoline engines generate large amounts of heat. That heat is mostly waste heat, but it can be used to heat the cabin of the car in winter. Electric cars do not generate waste heat, so heating the cab draws power from the batteries, running them down. In really cold weather, you need a lot of heat for the inside of a car. Electric cars don't like to tow anything heavy. And they don't like wind resistence. Both suck power from the batteries at a rapid rate. An electric car that might go 200 miles if it isn't towing anything will only go 80 miles if it is pulling a trailer. Also, the faster a car goes, the more wind resistence. A car that will go 200 miles at 60 MPH may only go 120 miles at 75 MPH. It all comes down to power. The batteries in electric cars just don't hold enough of it to allow them to compete with gasoline powered cars. And we're not even considering here how long it takes to recharge a car's batteries. We're talking 30 minutes for a partial charge that might give you 80 miles of range. Electric car makers always over-report their cars' range. Always.