Jim R
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Right I was implying people look who for electric cars are environmentally conscious although you could argue many of the other benefits are because it is electric!
For example the instant torque of electric and great handling from low center of gravity from the battery cells on the floor makes it exceed performance of comparable ICE cars. Also, the industry leading safety is in part due to it being electric: large crumple zone due to the lack of ICE components, low center of gravity as mentioned above also makes it nearly impossible to rolliver, and I think someone said the battery floor makes the sides very rigid/strong to limit side impact to significantly less than the next best car (a guy on here survived getting Tboned in driver side door)
Also for now there is some debate over net environmental impact until electricity is produced more from clean/alternative energy so I didn't really want to bring up discussion of that.
I get that "Best Electric Car" with performance, low centre of gravity, safety etc is important. But that is not "clean" as in generating less performance.
I think it is recognized that an electric car that gets energy from even a coal fired electricity plant is cleaner than an ICE. Correct me if I'm wrong. And many are getting their electricity from solar panels. Roof top electricity will only grow over time. You can't deny that's a factor in a customer's reason to buy electric. Seriously, go look at Elon's launch video for the Model X. (It's on Vimeo and elsewhere). Notice the reasons he built electric cars. Spoiler - for the environment. He didn't build electric for performance - that just happened to be a characteristic of electric motors.