For a coal / nuclear / Nat gas powered car? Yeah, right. Powered my mercury emissions, waste that will be around for tens of thousands of years or by fracking. "zero emission" isn't - it just moves the pollution from the tail pipe elsewhere.
Don't you think that depends on where you live? This corner of the country is about 70% hydropower. I have solar panels on my roof that generate more power than my household uses in a year by more than enough to power an electric car.
Electric cars are always cleaner to operate than gasoline cars, even if you're getting your power from coal or natural gas plants. And they have the potential to be MUCH cleaner, if you get your power from renewable sources.
And nuclear gets a bad rap, IMO. Storing nuclear waste is a heck of a lot safer and cleaner than storing coal ash, for example.
Your comparison of the Tesla Model S to a Nissan Leaf is kind of like saying its cooler to date 11 2 dumpy girls than to date Emily Ratajkowski
Even if we choose to overlook how incredibly inappropriately sexist it is to compare women to cars, for just a moment, your argument would still be clearly invalid. Models and non-models are both people, and their value as people is only determined in one tiny part by their appearance. What if Emily Ratajkowski is a huge Hitler fan? What if the two other girls are fantastic cooks and really into threesomes?
The Leaf is a POS that is barely functional. It has piss poor performance. It's tiny. It's range blows-
For the purposes of my life, a functional car needs to transport up to four passengers over suburban city streets to destinations up to 8 miles away. And back, at minimal cost. Any 0-60 time below about 10 seconds is totally lost on me. Any range over my maximum daily distance of about 30 miles is lost on me. The Tesla costs six times as much for zero additional functionality. It does look nice, though, so maybe if I was both vain enough and insecure enough to feel like a fancy car would make me more of a man that would count for something.
I like the Tesla. I could buy one tomorrow with cash on hand. But there is absolutely zero chance of that happening, because it's a horribly wasteful and inefficient use of funds. If I really valued a status symbol, I would buy a leaf, have it gold plated, and then publicly donate the remaining $50,000 to charity in front of the Mayor and a bunch of newspaper reporters (I'm not doing that either).