The difference is you can drive anything Tesla cross country due to their great charging infrastructure, chademo or the other CSS chargers are a joke, and even if you manage to find one they are unreliable and priced all over the place. I owned a first gen leaf and put 40k miles before my lease was up, now drive a…

I agree, I drive a regular 4 door sedan with my kids and I feel terrified around these raised Jeeps / pickup trucks who’s bumpers are almost higher than my trunk, then I think “ I should upgrade to an SUV to feel safer” I can see why Americans are all about SUVs, at that rate we’ll all end up driving tractor trailers…

Wrong, the escape hybrid used Toyota’s drive train components. See here http://www.hybridcars.com/ford-says-good…