They're just great little cars. Well, they're not unduly small, they're just great. Great milage. Warm, cool, good visibility, a stereo.
For some reason some non-owners are fiercely opposed to them.
"The battery will wear out". But it didn't when taxi drivers put on hundreds of thousands of miles.
"The battery will be hugely expensive". This is hard to reckon, because the batteries hardly ever fail. If one ever did fail, there should be plenty of wrecks to cannibalize.
The only drawback I see if price. They are not cheap, even counting the gas savings. You don't buy one to save money today. You buy it because it has way low emissions. Because you want to walk around saying "I'm so green, I'm so green" to yourself. Because you think there will not be peace in the middle east and the rest of the world, and that gas supplies may be disrupted, and gas prices may double some day.
What could be better? Well, the plug-in sounds pretty cool.
mine wasn't very expensive, but I bought it used.
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