I’ve never had an electric car or hybrid break down on the road. As for charging time and range, if this woman had been driving a Tesla instead of a Kia, her experience would have been the polar opposite.
I do not know the rental cost of a Tesla. Also, the range quoted in the article is not particularly lower than the Tesla at a reasonable rental cost. They max at 400 upscale?
This is not an engineering problem. It is physics. Only so many ampere hours can be put into a battery in such and such number of minutes. The charging stations saying they can charge things in less than overnight will also be talking about 80% charge, not full. These are enormous levels of ampere flow. It is not and never will be 3 minutes filling of a fuel tank — and make no mistake here, THAT is the only criteria that matters.
If you can’t put 400 miles into a car in 3 minutes, it is inferior. The I word. Inferior. As to these sales stats, go get data from non EV sources. And get them in a year not recovering from the virus or from virus stimulus fleet subsidies.
Then we’ll see if people want to wait hours to fill a tank.
What a hassle. In a regular car, you’d just hop in and go. Could do it in one day each way stopping for an hour for lunch.
“I’ve never had an electric car or hybrid break down on the road.”
I haven’t had a gas powered car fail me on the road since 1980. That was a carburetor issue. I did need to have a ball joint replaced in a 16 year old Camry once while on vacation although I could have gotten away with driving it home like it was. But ball joints have nothing to do with the engine.
So unless your experience with electric vehicles dates back before 1980....