Antony, ever heard of the renault Zoé?

I did not read anywhere in the study that the result applied only to a first-tier car maker with great dealers, a good reputation for quality, making great gasoline vehicles, and having an up-to-date line-up, or that an electric car had to be of a certain size... :-)

The price of the Mitsubishi i is $29,125 before incentives. So in California, it costs $19,125. Yet they don't sell. This Pike Research study is another piece of ...

Actually, spoke too fast, the Twizy has LG batteries also.

You might be right. However, if the Fluence ZE, the Kangoo ZE and the Twizy have batteries from AESC , the joint venture between Nissan et NEC , the Zoe will have batteries from the South-Corean LG. The French plant that will be producing batteries for Renault is now scheduled to deliver its first batteries in early 2015.

"Nissan and Renault have been producing the world's population of Leafs/Renault EV at one Japanese plant"
FYI, the Renault Fluence ZE is being produced in Turkey, the Kangoo ZE in France, and the Twizy in Spain. The new ZOE will be produced in France also. None of the Renault electric cars are produced in Japan.

This has nothing to do with being from Detroit or from California. I live in San Francisco, and around here, being green implies being more transparent. I admire Tesla, and I think Elon Musk is a great guy. But I wish that all of these new electric car makers (Tesla, Fisker, Coda, etc) had the guts to publish their monthly sales numbers, like every other car marketer. That does not make me or anyone else questioning this lack of transparency a "detractor". Gee, speaking of fan boys...

It has nothing to do with Tesla ramping up production. It has to do with Tesla being part of the auto industry, being as open as any other car company selling cars in the USA, instead of being so secretive and hiding its sales numbers. Tesla has been selling cars for over 2 years now, and cannot pretend anymore to be a new car company.

So we are stuck with only the sales numbers for the European countries (because they are released by industry/government organizations).
For exemple, in France in May, 7 Fisker and 0 Tesla were sold (3 Tesla Roadster were sold in 2012).

On a side note, Tesla is more and more like Apple: besides being so secretive, it has a base of fanboys who jump on anybody who dares to be critical of their "idol".