What caused the meteoric rise of electric vehicles a few years ago?

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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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Gas prices were suddenly over $4 a gallon. Lots of people were strongly motivated to get Hybrids and to start looking seriously for less fuel dependent options.

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