I'll never forget my teenage daughter driving back home from downtown in our Leaf, crying on the phone to me that the Leaf was at zero on the "guess-o-meter" and she was still a few miles from home. I told her to drive slow in the right lane, and to pull over if it went into turtle mode, and I would call a tow truck, that there was nothing to be concerned about. She made it to a friends house, closer than our home, and plugged into the wall outlet, then drove home later.
Kids say the funniest things, when they were little and I said we had no internet growing up, let alone computers, tablets or cell phones, she said to me "What will I tell my kids dad, we have everything now?". I said that there will be lots to tell them. So after this incident, I told her that when everyone including her children are driving electric cars with lots of range, she will tell this story to them, about her crying on the phone to grandpa, worrying about being able to make it home in an electric car that could barely make it downtown and back. She can tell them that no one else that she knew had one electric car, and we had two, including a Tesla, when a lot of people didn't even know what a Tesla was, which will be like saying you don't know Apple today. She laughed and agreed.
