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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9440885" data-attributes="member: 20564">Secondhand, but I've a close friend who has had several.  Quite happy with them, doesn't plan to go back.  If long distance driving (>300 miles) is an issue, it will take significantly longer to "fill" than a gas vehicle.  But if you normal driving range is less than that you'll effectively never need to "stop at a station".A bit more people get motion sickness, but it looks like they have narrowed that down to combining both the higher acceleration with a very aggressive regenerative breaking setting so your doing faster speed ups and slow downs than in a gas car - driving normally can avoid that.Something he has talked about in the past is that the battery pack will lose effectiveness - I think about a decade ago he we expecting around 150,000 miles before it was significant in his max range, and those aren't particularly cheap to replace.  So he was concerned about the secondary market.That said, he's purchased several, from different manufacturers, and is more pleased with them than a gas car.I'm in the NE of the US, where charging stations are fairly common.  If the range is a factor then look into that wherever you are.</blockquote>