Luxury Tesla sports cars are cool. Their instant acceleration that flings iPhones onto the backseat makes for great TV, especially when they’re zipping around the Top Gear racetrack under the [not-so-careful] handling of Jeremy Clarkson.

Lower-end ‘affordable’ European ecars are hilarious to watch as they struggle along motorways, limping toward non-existent recharging stations like ugly, half-squashed bugs.