I've owned a electric car, a 2012 Nissan Leaf. Never going to have electric car again. There's so many electrical cars in Norway now that the benefits are soon to end.
Only reason to get a electric car right now is... Well its none.

1 of the best cars you can buy for the reasonable people today, is really a VW Golf, or something Skoda.
Ive had a Golf 6 aswell. Great car, very spacious, it literally got as much space as a Audi A4. Its excellent to drive, its sticks on the road superbly even in snow.
The cockpit itself is a very nice and spacious place to be aswell. But its increased so much in price that you could consider a A3 aswell. Also a very nice car.

I've owned a electric car, a 2012 Nissan Leaf. Never going to have electric car again. There's so many electrical cars in Norway now that the benefits are soon to end.
Only reason to get a electric car right now is... Well its none.

1 of the best cars you can buy for the reasonable people today, is really a VW Golf, or something Skoda.
Ive had a Golf 6 aswell. Great car, very spacious, it literally got as much space as a Audi A4. Its excellent to drive, its sticks on the road superbly even in snow.
The cockpit itself is a very nice and spacious place to be aswell. But its increased so much in price that you could consider a A3 aswell. Also a very nice car.

Well, we're talking about Hybrids. My mother's 2001 Prius has almost 200,000 miles on it and got her a free single occupant pass in the carpool lane for almost 8 years.

Electric only makes sense under two conditions;

1-Your mileage supports it's range.
2-You can leech power for free off your employers charging station.

I've passed few a Teslas on the way to Vegas limping in the truck lane trying to conserve juice. Kind of funny to watch people suffer in their $100K cars.

Edit-I'm actually quite worried for Toyota's Prius. They are in serious danger of loosing their lock on the hybrid category with this unabashed assault on the senses. I'm a Toyota diehard and even I'm telling my mom to look at a Volt if she wants to get something else. She wants to lease in the future so I don't have to worry about getting my hands dirty if it goes full American shedding batteries on the freeway. It doesn't say Ford either so the chances of fire are greatly reduced.

Is the Accord Hybrid over her budget? Its hybrid system definitely isn't the smoothest operator in town compared to Toyota, Ford, or shockingly even Hyundai, but you can't argue with the MPG that Honda was able to get out of their system.

I'd prefer she chase the 7,600 tax credit and get 52 miles of full electric range. That's actually perfect for her daily routine atm.

Accord: 50/45/47
Volt 2: ?/?/42 (first 52-62 miles free)
2016 Prius: 55/54/53
2016 Prius Eco: 60/?/?

If she goes over budget it would likely be for something like a future Lexus RX at which point I'd try to steer/push her to a Porsche Macan instead.

What's funny is she likes boring cars and she's even bored of Toyota atm. Aesthetics will be big for her. She once bought a car because she liked its chromed hubcaps. She already said the Porsche Macan doesn't have enough greenhouse for her. I think she wants to pilot a Tie fighter.

Need greenhouse? Try a Citroen DS 21 Pallas.

Yeah, she grew up with one and lived in Paris for 10 years so....