When will you buy your first electric vehicle?

You always remember your first.

But getting to that first sometimes proves challenging.

That's even holding true for the electric-vehicles market, where sales growth has been slow but steady over the last few years as Tesla, Nissan and others have perfected their offerings and developed better technology to suit the market. Still, many buyers are hesitant to “take the leap” and actually buy an e-vehicle.

So, asks blogger William Cowie, what will it take for consumers to finally start taking electric vehicles seriously as day-to-day transportation? Not much, as it turns out. In fact, we might be closer to this shift than many realize.

“We may be witnessing the birth of a new normal,” Cowie writes, ”a bit like the Model T created new ways of living, many of which we still take for granted. Because Tesla has opened its inventory of patents for anyone to use, it is entirely possible that the market may become flooded with electric cars that deliver on the full promise of the inherent technology—so it's not Tesla the company that might change our lives, but the industry it helps to foster and grow.”

Click to read Cowie's full post at FiveCentNickel.com.