Put this way. The average cost of a new car is $45,000 that will go 35mpg in the city. Trucks are well over $50000
Someone comes to the USA with a similar sized 5 passenger sedan that costs $20000 and has a 300 mile range while costing five times less per mile to drive.
Do you see large numbers of people spending 25,000 more dollars to have 200 more miles of range that they use one or twice per year?
Even if those people do not have L2 plugs at home it’s still cheaper to go to a supercharger for half an hour each week. Do you see people saying well that half hour is not worth the 25 grand extra to have a car I need that twice a year for. If you do think that way you are a textbook confirmation bias case. The first group with $25K or less 200 mile EVs kills the American urban car markets
You’re making assumptions based on comparisons to buying a new car, but of all cars sold in America in a year, only 25% are new and 75% are used. Most of America can’t afford to buy a new car or don’t want to take the depreciation hit.
And there’s no resale or trade in value for EVs.
The CEO of Hertz got fired for buying into the EV hype and government subsidies and losing a ton of money for his company as a result. A debacle for buying the EVs since no one wanted to rent one. And then he couldn’t sell them off because there was no resale market.
I would spend 5-10k on a used ice vehicle over any EV