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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Government subsidy and mandates.
Remove those and the sales numbers would be a fraction of what we see now.
Electric cars will have their day, but I feel the day is quite a bit farther out than proponents would like.
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