11: Subpar Performance
Before the current crop of electric cars from Tesla and Ford, performance and electricity weren’t equated in the same sentence. The thing that made most electric cars stand out was the fact that they were painfully slow. Take the GM EV1 or the early Toyota Rav4 EV, both of which were not comparable to a gasoline-powered engine. Performance-wise, most electric cars are quite fast nowadays.

But getting drivers to see that is another thing, and electric cars have a long road ahead of them to replace gasoline-powered vehicles. Drivers need to understand that an electric car can compete in every sense of the word.