Electric car is much simpler device - you have battery and electric motor. No oil changes, head gaskets, no slipping transmissions, no plugged catalytic converters. The only issue is energy density and cost of batteries. Once battery tech is ready _all_ cars will be electric, and we will remember days of internal combustion engines the same way we remember now having to grease bearing nipples or having to double clutch non-synchronized transmissions.

While I prefer front engined rear wheel driven large-displacement naturally aspirated cars with a manual transmissions, you have to realize that these are not the future for the mainstream transportation. The future is an electric econobox with some self-driving capabilities.