I’m asking this without bias. Just genuine curiosity. Cause I don’t understand (hence eli5 lol). Why are they being pushed right now when it’s known that almost all EVs have ranges that are quite low? Compared to the amount of miles one may get with a full tank of gas that is.
Surely they would focus more on increasing the amount of range per charge to match what you can get in terms of gas in a newer gas powered car (closer to 500). Instead of setting laws in place to phase gas out before electric is even fully developed.
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If you look at the EV’s that are on the market today, plenty of them have the range that gasoline vehicles do. But there’s also another factor. If you take a car like a Nissan Leaf, it is designed to be a commuter car. It has a lower range (~150 miles), but for a normal day’s driving for most of the world, that is more than enough range. You probably wouldn’t want to drive it across a large country.
The Kia EV6 has a range of over 300 miles which isn’t too far off from my Kia Soul gasoline car which gets ~350 miles per tank of gasoline.
Another attractive side to an electric car is that you can power it yourself. With a gasoline car, a typical person isn’t going to be able to drill for oil and refine it into gasoline, but a typical person could generate their own electricity to charge an EV.
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