Electric cars- anyone buy one?

[Hammer]

I am curious to know your experience with it. Pros and cons

Can you just plug in and charge up anywhere?
How much has your electric bill gone up?


Thanks in advance

[Gregg]

My boss has a hybrid. He said the battery life will be the issue. When the time comes the replacement batteries will cost more than the car will be worth. I think he said 7 years. He will be selling/trading it before he has to deal with it.

[Controller Jacobs]

This review is interesting: link

Among a lot of details about the car, it has this: "Chevrolet is also offering leases on the Volt for $350 per month for 36 months with $2,500 due at signing." That should limit your downside, which is what I'd be worried about with the Volt.

The article also has this interesting quote from Motor Trend:
"That leaves us with the elephant in the room: price. The $41,000 tab is probably $10K more than the car merits, and doesn’t include installation of the 240-volt charger needed to reduce the recharge time from 11 to 4 hours. Uncle Sam forks over $7500 of that, and several states will bridge the rest of the gap."--Motor Trend