Electric cars use magic gas.

I've been trying to think of a way to completely summarize the prospect of owning an electric car. 

The fuel is cheaper.
Gasoline is $3.70 per gallon. Electricity is $1.08 for 9 Kilowatt/hours. Both will get you about 27 miles. 

The car can't hold a lot of fuel.
A Ford Focus electric can only hold enough electricity to travel 80 miles. That's similar to a gas-powered car with a three gallon tank.

There aren't any gas cans.
An electric car will let you know how much electricity you have and how far you can go with that electricity. If you ignore this information, and run out of fuel on the freeway, empty, you are kind of screwed. You'll have to walk to a Home Depot and get a Honda Generator.

There aren't a lot of gas stations, but gas is everywhere.
Electricity is like news. Electricity is so widely available that everyone has it, but it isn't sold at stores. 

When you are filling up, the fuel flows into your car slowly.
Gas pumps at a gas station are amazing. They can push 400 gallons in one hour.
This is a big difference with electric cars, probably the deal breaker for most people. The batteries of an electric car can't be filled up in 5 minutes like a gas-powered car. Scott's Ford Focus requires 20 hours to fuel completely, and the Nissan Leaf takes even longer.  A gallon of gasoline is approximately equivalent to 9 Kilowatts/hours, in that both will drive you 27 miles. With an electric car, it will take 7 hours of "regular outlet" charging to get that power into your battery. One gallon in seven hours is equivalent to gasoline dripping into a car very slowly. Drip. Pause, Drip, Pause, Drip. Like one DROP every two seconds.
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