Electric cars simply don’t make economic or ecological sense. The government was the only thing keeping them in production. I predict that if the present government drops subsidies and tax support that the entire electric car industry will dry up and vanish in short order.
Incidentally, as of last month GM had an unsold inventory backlog of cars something like 200 days. Chrysler and Ford had a lesser amount but still way over the 30-60 days they like. Trucks and SUV’s are selling just fine. Here are the reasons. The cars are TOO SMALL. There fore people are buying larger more comfortable vehicles. Without government interference the companies would stop making cars and just let the inventory drift down over the next two years. But regulations force them to make (and sell) a large amount of small cars to keep the fleet fuel mileage at whatever the current, ridiculously low number is. The government has forced the industry into a corner where they could all go bankrupt.
There is still a large market for small cars and even electric vehicles; however, government interference has irreparably skewed the market to the cronies. If Big Brother hadn’t interfered, the Big Three would have died from natural causes long ago. We would have had numerous independent innovative manufacturers building everything from hybrid monster trucks to super mopeds for college kids.
Crying about Tesla subsidies and CAFE standards is a bit disingenuous when the entire industry in complicit in maintaining their government-sponsored monopolies. Another shot of Ethanol, anyone?
In addition to being too damned small, they are far too expensive for what you get.