Yes, it is good that EVs are becoming commonplace. The last couple years people have mainly gathered around the Teslas at E day and other EVents, not only because they are a nice vehicle, but because of the hype about them. I never was a very active EVangelist, my primary motivation was to lower my carbon emissions. But when I first did the conversion in 2009 the local club had few vehicles to show so it was more important to show mine, especially since it was the only one in the area with lithium cells and longer range. It was more about showing electric transportation was possible and practical for less than 100 miles then. Now that is well-known and it is more showing what production cars are available for purchase, and giving people a taste by giving test drives. Mine isn't of much use because few people have any interest in doing conversions and it doesn't have all the nice features of a production car. Like Peter said it looks pretty plain next to the production cars. I expect (and hope) in another 5 years the present generation of production cars, other than the Tesla S, will be as quaint as my conversion now is due to much greater range and spiffy features.
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