Or…. Folks are wise enough to know , a technology in its infancy is not worth investing in. If the media actually reported the pitfalls of fully EVs at this juncture , theyd sell even less.
Electric vehicles are hardly in their infancy. They were the beginnings of the quest to manufacture cars for everyone.
I certainly take your point. EVs are in their infancy as a mass-produced alternative to mature transportation technologies. This is despite what people might dredge up from The History Channel (when it did history).
Yes, historically, electricity was right there with kerosene in powering 4 horse-power horseless carriages. It was rapidly shoved into irrelevance, however, as an inadequate and uncompetitive technology.
In a very real sense, the modern EV suffers from the progress that the internal combustion engine enabled, as well. No one will look twice, today, at a vehicle that does not sport power steering and brakes, motorized windows and air conditioning. All of these features rob an EV of its precious supply of electricity. If EVs did not need these conveniences, they would be more competitive, but the clock cannot turn backwards.