> One thing the above does not take into account is the feeling of a BEV, which internal combustion and weak hybrids simply cannot match.

I absolutely agree about most luxury customers. However, there are certainly those of us in the minority who favor a more mechanical experience when driving a car, and most electric cars seem to move even further away from this in pursuit of efficiency, etc. Consequently, I don't think this market will exist for much longer once driving becomes more commoditized.

I'm certainly on a tangent by now, but there an interesting piece by Malcolm Gladwell in Car and Driver about a possible result of the rise of autonomous cars on car culture today: www.caranddriver.com/features/when-autonomous-cars-rule-what-will-happen-to-car-culture-feature