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But there are still some more concerns for people like myself. I do the majority of my driving within a 50 mile round-trip radius, and therefore would be perfectly fine 90% of the time.
But, I do drive to my grandmothers house about once every 6 weeks, and it's very near the maximum range of the Model S in terms of round trip. And while there might possibly be a Tesla station around DFW, it is highly unlikely it would be anywhere near my actual preferred route, so more or less not useful to me.
I realize I could plug the car in at my grandmothers house, but it just seems a bit "weird" to me still. I would be parked in her driveway, and what, run an extension cable to an outlet in the garage while we sit and talked?
It does surprise me that he is investing this much in infrastructure (I think he said 500K per station). I think by the end of the year there are supposed to be 50 stations. And by the end of 2015 something like 200 stations. That's 100M just in the battery swap infrastructure alone.
It seems like all the money should still be put on the R&D side into the batteries themselves. I realize 100M by itself isn't enough to greatly advance that area. So I guess that was the decision Elon made, that there is enough demand for this to justify 100M vs the prospect of increasing the capacity of the batteries.
To compensate for the current high-end pricing (until sales significantly increased), only business sales persons who drive long distances would benefit, which they are unable to do at this time. To own one at today's prices isn't financially justifiable for those driving short distances to work and back. Get a cheap economy car for that. Elon needs to satisfy his capital investors medium-term. If Washington is behind it, and I think they are given the press Tesla has received, then his investors could pull out.
As price becomes competitive, America will become interested.
