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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Elon Musk.
You can hate him for a lot of things, but he absolutely deserves credit for this.
* Creating the Tesla Roadster
* creating Tesla Model S
* Creating Supercharger charging infrastructure
* Creating Model 3
* Creating Model Y
* Creating gigafactory
Everything else is a consequence of the above:
Various followers and copycats:
* Rivian
* XPeng
* Lucid
* ChargePoint
* BYD
Government regulations forcing EV vehicles by a certain year
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