I think you guys have been drinking a bit too much kool-aid.
It's kind of a one way street, especially after a test drive.
Don't get me wrong, after about 3,000 miles of test drives, I love the Roadster. But I also think GM have built an excellent car in the Ampera. Not perfect, but we know about what perfect is. I never thought I'd buy a Vauxhall a few years ago either but from my earlier test drive, I think they smashed it out the park. Time to give up the badge snobbery.
Telsa has the EV crowd, but is going to need to get non-EV people interested at some point.
I'm in the top 5% of UK earners. I'll back Tesla all the way, but I'm not going to go for a Model S because although I could afford the 160 with cash, now (at least on dollar values), I am not putting down that much money on a car that as others have pointed out, will not be able to meet even the most regular of my non-work journeys after a few years of ageing. Lack of rapid charging on the lower models is a big miss.
Tesla still has a lot of work to do to get to the 3 Series equivalent. I'll be cheering them on, but I'll be doing it from a PHEV while they figure it out.
A friend of mine who had an order in for a Volt cancelled after I took him to see the Model S Beta. He was very impressed, and is planning to wait and save up for one.
It looks gorgeous, but I'm done with waiting and saving. I'm ready to go yesterday.
GM and now Ford will allow many people to do much of their driving on electric. There is no BEV in that sweet spot yet. Pretty soon BMW, Audi and Infiniti will arrive there. As I said before, if Infiniti gets to that £35k level with their 2014 sedan and it has CHAdeMO, then Bluestar has a tough hill to climb. Seems to me they could add £10k of batteries to the LEAF platform and give it better looks and leather pretty easily. I wonder why no manufacturer has jumped in there yet?