Last week something unexpected happened, I saw and photographed a Tesla Model S. It was parked in front of an expensive glass office building, between two gas-guzzlers.
Unfortunately my phone's camera is awful (5MP, autofocus only when it wants to), so I took these pictures with my girlfriend's Allview E4 Lite, which has a 13MP back camera ... but in low light they didn't turn out that well either ...
The license plate said "B", meaning our capital, so it traveled from Bucharest and/or was bought/leased by a large company, with mandatory offices in the capital.
I didn't look at the exact model, but it's a pre-facelift model, with Autopilot hardware 1.0, as far as I can tell, because the front windshield had the triangular plastic in the middle for the camera.
Unfortunately we still have a very poor charging infrastructure in Romania. As far as I know, only one hipermarket chain (Kaufland) made 3 charging spots in their parking lots, but only in big cities (such as Cluj-Napoca, Bucharest...etc.). Using these 22kW chargers you can travel from the western border right across to the Black Sea, assuming that your EV has at least 150km range and none of the chargers are broken.
Our national grid (for households) is on 220V and the standard circuit breaker can deliver 25A to one home, so for charging you'd need a separate meter and breaker ... or a direct connection to the 400V grid (available only in specific parts of the city). SO in theory you can charge at about 5kW on a standard Schuko wall socket, or at a lower rate if someone else in the house is also using some electricity. In a best case scenario this means a full charge in about 15 hours for a 70-85kWh Tesla, which is still perfectly OK for the average driver, who doesn't use one full charge in less than a week.
Even though the Tesla Model 3 is around the corner, it won't be for everyone with its 35.000 USD price tag, BUT even today you can get a good electric city car for under 20.000 USD, with a 100 mile range. I think these cheap cars will be the most popular and will replace taxis and average gas powered cars used in cities.
These cheap ForTwo and ForFour SMARTs are third generation electric cars, so most of the bugs have been fixed, but the original power train was significantly weakened, as it was based on the Tesla Roadster, which was a sports car. So you won't be racing in Electric SMARTs, but they are safe and extremely efficient with an average consumption of ~100Wh/km vs. 170Wh/km of a Tesla Model S.