Future proof....

Buy a dongle that converts gas to electricity.

 

Actually there are already added costs if you want an ultra modern car. You need special equipment installed at your home for charging electric cars and Fuel cell vehicles.

 

No you don't. It's nice to have (faster charging), but you can even plug into a normal wall outlet. And a normal 30 A dryer outlet is used by most folks I know and is plenty fast enough.

 

Typically the car will only only include a trickle charger. You need to buy equipment to use a higher voltage then 120v. Once bought you certainly shouldn't be sharing an outlet with your dryer and swapping back and forth. You should have a proper EVSE installed.

 

I own a Tesla model s. I didn't need to buy or install anything. It comes with a modular plug that can work with a normal 120V wall outlet and a 30A dryer outlet. You don't have to share with your dryer. You just need a 30A circuit. Or you can plug into a 10A outlet and charge longer.

 

Lame.... welcome to Macrumors

 

nothing is future proof

 

Well, actually, the huge elephant in the room that you completely missed is that Tesla is pretty much doing to the automobile industry exactly what Apple does in tech. They are building the car for tomorrow, today. There is no traditional auto maker that is building anything like what Tesla builds because they have one foot firmly entrenched in the past. Their EV's are all low range, low power, slow charging, with no unified charging system in place. Tesla rightly realizes that as long as you build cars like that with huge compromises, people will never leave their gas vehicles. Give them something great though, even if it means a few other compromises now, and you'll push to the future a lot faster.

When my father bought his Model S less than 2 years ago he could not go in any direction from his house more than the range of the car. Today he can go in almost any direction and hit a Supercharger within 150 miles, he regularly drives it on 1000 mile trips, and could take it across the country. All that changed in just 2 years!