Drilling for oil is bad enough but fracking is even worse. Natural gas is a temporary solution at best.

It almost makes it sound like an illegal drug deal. Shh tonight we're crossing the state border to meet a Tesla representative, word has it he has the goods for all our questions shhh.

This is becoming a witch hunt, it's sickening.

A quick charge frying your battery would be a rare event, but a big mechanically operated station breaking down could happen easily. Right now Better Place is keeping a close eye on their stations but they don't have a lot to watch. A larger aging swap network would be prone to problems just like older automated car washes.

Yes I've heard of people doing this, but the problem there is the car owner making a mistake.

Actually the magazine is very balanced, just under the title in bold print it says "We grab a chilly lift in BMW's game-changing i3 and i8" both cars being winter tested. The article was very positive, Top Gear magazine is a well produced magazine that's on par with any other magazine. The article was written by Paul Horrell.

I bought the April edition of Top Gear magazine, the very first thing inside the cover is a huge BMW i3 ad. I bought the magazine because it has an article on the i3 and i8 there is also an article about the Mercedes SLS e-drive in it.

It could happen, what was only supposed to take three minutes could ruin your day. And though you could have a problem rapid charging it is in some cases easy to fix with a software update sent directly to the car or the charger.

You never can tell what could happen to your car in an older station, swapping stations will need maintenance and if not kept up something could go wrong. Better Place is watching over their few stations, but if swapping was as widespread as gasoline you know you're bound to get a bad swap some day.

I'd rather use the Super Charger, if I drove a Model S to the point it needed a charge I wouldn't need a 3 minute swap I'd need a break. I'd also hate to be far from home and have the swap process damage something on the car ending my trip in a rental car and having to head home early.

It sounds more like "paint the town" as in the expression, paint the town red.