I understand it was always an appealing choice to a small subset of customers (have charging stations at home / work, only travel relatively short distances, etc) but all the disadvantages of EV that people are pointing out now were even worse a few years ago – like high purchase prices, range concerns, batteries underperforming in cold weather, lack of infrastructure, repairability etc.
What was the actual driver behind the massive EV boom?
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I kind of think what you are saying is a little flawed. All the bad press about EV seems to me to be way over hyped. Especially over the last few months.
EVs are a good fit for a lot of people but the press, for whatever reason, likes to find and report the worst case scenarios. And those worst case situations sound scary. For every report of people getting stranded because a charger is out of commission there are 1000s of situations that worked out as they should have.
So when you say “all the disadvantages” of EVs I think you are falling into a trap the press is setting for you.
I have an EV. It’s a 2017 Fiat 500e. It’s range is less than 100 miles. And in the winter it’s about 25% less. But it gets me to work in -10F weather which the VW diesel it replaced couldn’t’t do. That thing wouldn’t start at anything less than +5F that was a huge disadvantage.
This is just one situation. But I think if you talk to EV owners you’ll find that most of them are happy, and see no if any disadvantage to an EV.
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