Driving a Tesla is not a badge of honor, I don't know where you get that from, Electric car is fundamentally a better car than Oil car, it's like flip phone to smart phone, it's infinitely faster, handle better, more function and cheaper to repair (less part), cheaper to recharge and cheaper to maintenance (again, less part). <br>No one give a fuck about earth driving a electric car, they drive it because it's cool and fast. Being clean is never the selling point, it's like when government or gaming company said we heard you, no one really believe that crap.<br>So electric car being not clean is not a problem for future sales nor problem of people being deceive that driving one is saving earth, no one believe those thing.,(reply>), Some people do, or they do it to save money, it's an investment that might save money overtime, this could be true with rising oil prices but then again if everyone only drove electric cars the electricity net would be overburdened leading to blackouts and standstill of the economy, not good.