2/3 of Americans still won’t buy them. They love overpaying for overpriced, oversized gas guzzlers. This has all happened before and will probably happen again. This is the country that elects people who want to tear down windmills and solar panels so they can “drill baby drill”.
Make the price of gasoline $25 dollars a gallon, if they refuse to buy Electric Vehicles then make sure the price of gas is higher than that
I love EVs and still lease one, but they’re horrible for family’s needing to travel thousands of miles to take holiday/vacation or to see family.
Broke down and literally just sold my Kia EV6 to get a Toyota Highlander Hybrid: zero regrets. There’s still real world use cases for gas cars still.
Petrol is still cheap (here it’s over $10 per gallon), and so long as the US continues to severely undertax it, the US (and global) economy is going to keep paying the price.
True, but spoiled petrolheads are complaint how expensive it is now that it hit $3.49/gal
I want petroleum to be $25 a gallon
The main problems in the US in terms of EVs are lack of infrastructure and that car manufacturers keep pushing gigantic inneficient cars.
No excuse for car manufacturers focussing on high profit models/trims, but …
I think the infrastructure considerations are overblown. Don’t get me wrong, its very true and this is an appropriate role for the government to coordinate infrastructure buildout, that it’s failing at. But it’s enough to support far more EVs than we have, and for many it’s not the obstacle they think it is
- there’s a solid percentage of people who own their own home and can charge at home - that should be a no-brainer yet most don’t have EVs yet.
- most of the us population is within 50 miles of a trip chargers, which, in conjunction with 300 mile ranges, makes road trips doable without too much inconvenience
I completely agree with you there.
However, unfortunately more often than not people focus on the 0.1% of the use case for their car rather than the 99.9% day to say. I think until the infrastructure is ubiquitous and reliable, people tend to think that EVs are not practical.
That’s wrong, but I feel it gets in the way of people getting them.
And to be clear, I am an apartment dwelling EV owner that cannot charge at home. The difference is that I don’t live in the YS and can charge literally everywhere I drive to.
I don’t want an EV. I want vastly improved public transit.
Why not both?
Get a bike and use it, and you will get ahead.
