Comment Re:Thanks, California taxpayers! (Score 1) 238
wow you are looking for things to rag on. If you live in an area with a tesla charge station it free to charge in about 30 minutes. If you don't it's not that expensive compared to a regular car. Which you can charge while you are at home. Unless you are traveling in excess of 160miles a day I find it unlikely on average that you will ever need to stop somewhere and charge your car.
Batteries die and it's a huge huge huge expense this is the only one I see relevant in your post.
If you are going somewhere in a tesla S it can reach up to 300miles and there are more and more tesla charging stations popping up. Usually somewhere close to services like food. Most people typically get out and stretch for a bit every few hundred miles. I'm not saying you might have to stop and rest when you don't want to, or that right now you might end-up somewhere that you have to stay over night to charge your car, but that's going to be fade fast if Tesla is able to keep building infrastructure for their cars.
You ran out of a charge on the road, you are just as likely to run out of gas. I think it's easier to find a plugin than a gas station. I think the charge for a tow truck is the same regardless.
Bottom line the only thing that will not be fixed with time(infrastructure and charge times at charging stations) is the battery is going to die. Tesla has been looking at ways to fix this as well. Tesla cars right now are kind of in a beta testing mode, they work, they are cool and most of the flaws have fixes set out for them that need to be implemented. It's going to take time but outside of a battery replacement I don't think having one in the future is going to cost as much as you think.