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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The green global agenda, and governments subsidizing the crap out of car manufacturing and purchasing plans for regular people.
The manufacturers will always go where there is most money to be made (or saved. free government money ftw), and regular people feel better when they think they’ve somehow tricked the system and “saved money” in the process.
If you are a manufacturer and want to sell more electric cars you have to convince people they need them. What better way to do it than wrap all of that in some kind of righteous cause.
There are monumental infrastructural issues that need to be overcome before widespread electric car adoption becomes possible, and we’re not there yet. Case in point: it’s a hurricane/winter snow storm, and nobody has power. Your car is an expensive boat anchor now, and you’re stuck.
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