“A cheap EV city car could work well... but BIG GOV just doubled the price on them to kiss UAW ass.”
The government subsidies (tx credits for cars that were only EV cars) and what has become a branch of the gpvernment - the U.S. auto industry ruined what could have been a natural evolving development of EVs, and you are right about what the 1st EVs ought to have been and maybe still ouught to be - runabouts for city living.
An EV industry starting out that way without government demands and subsidies would have had a natural evolution, in type of cars and price, from small EVs for running around city environments, to full size sedans.
Instead the government and the idustry chose to try to replace the full size ICE sedan, right away. It has been the most expensive beginning of a new industry ever. Expensive to build and expensive for the people the government wants t force into an EV.
Even the charging networks have not been a allowed a natural evolution, which would have happened on its own in cities if that is where most EVs were marketed for to start with. As the cars evolved, over likely a few decades, the charging networks, without government subsidy or demand, would have expanded out from the cities, on its own, as a good private enterprise capital investmen WHEN THE TIME WAS RIGHT.
—”Even the charging networks have not been a allowed a natural evolution...”
In the all-too-close city of Chicago, they went all in for electric scooters/bicycles.
The cost of a receptacle to power the chargers was beyond believable. It’s not some massive power-hungry Hummer charger.
$40,000 and up! for half a dozen 110V receptacles to charge a few scooters.
Yes, it was union this and union that, but it was still crazy money.
In Chicago it takes FIVE to mow a small front lawn; one coming, one going, one sh!t!ng, one mowing, and a supervisor.
Tesla makes a good product, my sister owns one, and many of my neighbors too. I loved the G-70 EV but I can wait.