Tesla's P100D, which undercuts the Japanese supercar by a few thousand pounds offers stratospheric straight
line performance purely under electric power - oddly addictive, it's a wholly different proposition but one that shouldn't be discounted.
Some of these choices bring
performance or comfort improvements, others are
purely about aesthetics, and some are harder to pinpoint... Bottom
line, there are all kinds of reasons for picking one vehicle over another, and these can certainly include environmental reasons, technological ones (early adopters wanting to be first to ride this wave), or psychological ones (on top of the other benefits, many find it more pleasurable to drive plug - in vehicles than gas ones).