Anecdotally the reason I've heard a lot of execs switching their 7/5-series Bimmers over to Teslas, is that they can use the HOV lanes at any time. Around here

Anecdotally the reason I've heard a lot of execs switching their 7/5-series Bimmers over to Teslas, is that they can use the HOV lanes at any time. Around here that can save up to an hour of commute. While the subsidies aren't nearly as extensive here, you do get a credit. There's also free charging stations in most of the suburbs, so electrical cost is near nill if you plug in all day at work, and your car is pretty much always fully charged. But all that is dwarfed by the opportunity cost of the time highly paid professionals were sitting in traffic. Instantaneous torque from startup also makes it feel blazing fast (the torque-curve is very different in IC vs. electric engines.)