For discussion's sake, I think you're being overly harsh. For somebody who makes regular round trips within the electric vehicle's range, work, shopping, etc, and can plug it in overnight, I think it makes a lot of sense. I do wonder how they work out in cold winter weather. My opinion is that a plug in hybrid is a better solution than an all electric car. Developing just the cars is very stupid. If everybody suddenly had an electric car, the grid would collapse and hardly anybody would be able to use them.