I disagree completely. Reaching 65mph in 30 seconds is "enough for anybody", but when you make a car, you have to make something that people want to buy, not so

I disagree completely. Reaching 65mph in 30 seconds is "enough for anybody", but when you make a car, you have to make something that people want to buy, not something that is "enough". There are cheaper low performance electric cars out there. Before Tesla, battery cars had the image of being low performing city cars that humorless greenies drove around San Francisco. Telsa IMO was very smart to come out right off the bat with extremely high performance and decent range cars at a (low end) "luxury" position, and worked hard on their charging side. It really gave the brand huge cred and wiped out a lot of "BEV" doubts, and differentiated themselves from other electric cars. And it's far easier to start selling cheaper cars from that position than it is to start selling expensive cars with a brand known to be cheap.