The Real Advantages and Benefits of Electric Cars

I just read about Nissan's upcoming Leaf electric car. Hybrid and electric cars tout all sorts of tree-huggy, heart-warming benefits, but for me to shell out for a car that can only go 100 miles at a time, it has to have some cold, hard benefits to yours truly. Others can sell the emotional benefits; here's my list of immediate, tangible, self-centered benefits of electric cars. Add your ideas in the comments!

• No more oil changes! For people who pay others to have their oil changed, this means no more attempted ripoffs by grease monkey mechanics. If you're a DIY oil changer like me, this means no more tedious trips to Auto Zone, flipping through a tattered parts catalog, lugging cases of oil home, messy driveway oil changes, and lunchbreak trips to your local HAZMAT disposal facility to drop off a few windshield wiper fluid bottles full of used motor oil that's been sitting in your garage for a year.
  
• More reliable: Fewer moving parts means less wear and tear, fewer maintenance costs, and better reliability. Batteries have no moving parts and electric drives apply force directly to each wheel. They're also low heat. This means no more pistons, crankshaft, transmission, transmission fluid changes, radiator, engine coolant, fans, catalytic converters, exhaust systems, mufflers. You don't have to maintain those things, repair them, or burn gasoline moving their weight around. Electric cars should be simpler, lighter weight, and more efficient systems.
  
• Less expensive: Better reliability combined with not using gas should make electric cars cheaper than gasoline ones. Electricity is cheaper than gas. Its price doesn't fluctuate as much so the costs are more predictable.
  
• No more emissions inspections: Okay, depending on your state, this might be a 1 hour, $25 commitment once every two years. Still.
  
• 4WD: Since electric drives can apply force to each wheel, more electric cars should be four-wheel drive or at least all-wheel drive. That should equal safer cars.
• 4WB: Regenerative braking should be safer. I'm not sure how regenerative braking works, but I think it might involve resistance magnets. If so, then each wheel should be able to brake independently, meaning that more electric cars should have all-wheel or four-wheel braking.
• More data: Ever since some friends and I accidentally rented a Chrysler Sebring convertible in the late '90s, I've been 0ften annoyed that cars don't offer more data to drivers. We got all excited seeing the Sebring's real-time reports on gas mileage. There's nothing inherent about electric cars that they should offer more data, but they all seem to. After you park, Toyota's Prius rates the efficiency of the driving you just did. Why don't more cars offer higher tech features like this?
• Safer? I haven't seen any burning or exploding cars lately, but not carrying 10-15 gallons of flammable liquid that is designed to explode when ignited inside a hot hunk of metal seems safer than doing so.