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A huge part of the economics of electrics is also what you compare it to.
I can buy a running (or one I can make run) Geo Metro right now for about $500 and have it get 50 mpg.
Thats the cost equivelant of a couple of lead batteries, without an electric car to put them in.
On the other hand, if you compare buying a used Solectria and put $10,000 worth of batteries in it, you still have a car you CAN NOT BUY!
There is currently NOTHING commercially available that would equal it.
I guess I have always been a used-car buyer, and numbers like $10G are house down-payments, not car payments.
Even with the Nissan Leaf slated to come out in a couple years, and to be "affordable" it's still going to be at least double the cost of what you could do with a Solectria with a high-end battery system.
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