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I'm in the process of buying a new car since my Toyotal Tercel 1999 has been dying lately and I am planning to jump in the EV market. The gas saving is a big player in considering which one to buy however the range as to be a inimum of 40 km to go to work and 120 km for the week-end long distance driving. Here is my personnal reflection on my last years of EV reading and investigation. If anyone else has been in the EV market or interested lately, feel free to add some advices or share your thoughts.

1) Any EV on the road is a win for society and ecology. Could be a Tesla, a BMW i3, a Chevy Volt, Leaf or MiEV, the world will be a better place.
2) Tesla's CEO Elon Musk was a genious in engineering a Luxury car with a price that will refund Tesla's development costs targeting rich customers who like classic conservative luxury cars and have accumuled over the years enough to inject into Tesla initial R&D.
3) BMW ingeniously targeted the young professionnals with young families population in their ads showing around 35 y.o couples with 1 or 2 kids starting in life with "Sustainable, renewable, ecologic" life-style.
4) Tesla and BMW engineered excellent cars, Tesla on the performance, spacious, luxury side and BMW on the optimizing compact, range for weigth/range ratio for for the price. GM engineered a nice Chevy Cruze they managed to throw in a battery and reshape the lines. Nissan made a cheap, affordable car with lower range to sell for the mass.

I will buy an i3 because the range fits my needs and my wife prefers the young style of the i3. We will keep the extra 30k for a cashdown on the upcoming house purchase. If my old car was still fine and didn't require $5000 or repairs and I could wait another 2 or 3 years, I would probably wait for the Tesla Model E because of the range and performance of Tesla which I loved during the test drive. Even if I have the money to afford the Model S, that would impute a great fraction of the savings I have made.