Ah, a company that produces chargers telling us that electric cars are inevitable. Maybe it's true, but native advertising is not what will convince me.

Electric cars now outperform gas cars in acceleration. This has blown away the "vroom" advantage behind much automotive marketing. Electrics can also do it easily and routinely, without burning clutch plates and wearing out transmissions. Elon Musk has capitalized on this, with features such as "ludicrous mode". There are only five cars with a faster 0-60 time than Tesla's family hatchback. And two of them are partially electric. The three IC-powered supercars that can beat a Tesla can only do it by 100ms, they all cost upwards of $250K, and they're fragile, high-maintenance machines. (Especially the Veyron, where a tire change costs $90K).

IC cars have thus lost the "vroom" race. That's changed perception of electric cars.

The big remaining problems are cost, and trucks. We have yet to see a good electric pickup truck.

you know, I would love to buy a tesla, if I could afford it.

Sadly, I live in an apartment, without any garage, and I have no idea where I'd be supposed to charge it.

Potential hidden motives aside, it seems to me pretty ineffective to focus on the different characteristics of internal combustion versus electric motors. We've known all this for a century. The only difference between the two that has ever mattered is that in the one case you can put 400 miles in your tank in five minutes, and in the other it takes 8 hours to put 200 in.

Electric car engines are efficient at converting electricity into motion. However, this neglects the efficiency of power plants at converting fuel into electricity, and the efficiency of transmission of electricity. Taking this into account, electric cars are generally about as bad for the environment as ordinary cars.

Of course, this depends on the cars compared, and more importantly, on how the electricity wherever you live is generated. The real point is: it's far more important to improve how we generate electricity than to get more butts in electric cars.