Experience is the best teacher.
Getting what you were told you needed to ask for, good and hard too.
After the green label is applied, and you have an endless positive and glowing reports of how awesome and great it will be, selling some “vision of the future,” reality settles in.
Expensive
Often low range
Temperature dependent
Limited life span batteries which are very expensive
Long recharge times
Limited charging stations and locations
Questionable environmental net benefit
Form (a feeling/image) vs. function.
Especially if the economy turns negative and people become more aware of the bottom line, this fad (everything in the US is a fad or trend), will end.
Another marxist-central-planning, social engineering failure.
The more it nosedives the more the politicians will enjoy mandating EVs
Big government pinkos pushed too hard too fast. There are many not so many virtue signalers out there. Yes, they are squeaky wheels that make a lot of noise, desperate to be heard, which is why they run for office. Once there, they have moose their will upon the rest of us.
No one wants your battery card at your increased expense and risk of burning down the vehicle and house.
But the clock is ticking on electric car mandates in California and some other states. Supposedly in California in 2035, sales of new internal combustion engine vehicles are to be banned.
Supposedly you can still buy a used car in 2035, but who knows if sales of used cars will be restricted too.
How about they stop making EV “Sports Cars” and just make a simple econobox?
Put a battery powered drivetrain in something basic like a 1985 Hilux or 1985 Ford Escort Wagon?
A Big Boy, limited use, road going Gold Cart?
Ford Probe EV’s are still a groovy idea.
Maybe even go whole hog and have an EV Kei Truck?
oh but wait:
“IT HAPPENED! Elon Musk’s $15,000 Motor Home FINALLY Hitting The Market!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osTZBEj_-qM
(no way is it gonna be $15,000- can’t even buy his tesla electric car for that price)
I got into my ICE vehicle and left.
Easy solution: make cost of owning an ICE car more expensive to match or exceed an EV. Bingo.
This is an Easy Fix:
Mandate Every Public Employee in America be required to exsclusively use an EV or Mass Public Transit for ALL Transportation or be Terminated and All Pension and Retirement Benefits are rescinded.
Watch how fast they fix the problems
Never was interested in electric cars.
Doubt I ever will be interested.
I say that as an EV owner who likes the EV for doing most of our driving (we also have a gas pickup). But we're in a good situation for an EV being one of our two cars (in the south where there's little winter cold, charge at home, drive lots of miles for the gas savings and oil change savings to be significant, most of our trips are along routes with good charging options, and we have the gas pickup for the times an EV isn't good for a trip). Most people aren't in a situation like ours in which an EV is good as one of the two cars.
Likely sold rather than foot the bill for a battery replacement,,
Almost everybody who WANTS an electric vehicle powered by a bank of rechargeable cell batteries has bought one. Some are supremely satisfied, others treat them as the appliance they are, and those who are disappointed are greatly and vocally outspoken in their condemnation.
If only the builders of these battery-powered electric vehicles could come up with an on-board electrical generation system, that produced the energy as needed, and do it reliably with relatively inexpensive fuel costs, then this system could stand a good chance of wide adoption.
Electric traction drive is actually a pretty good system, as the power could be directed to each wheel in a coordinated power management computer system, as the wheels are turning at four different rates of speed while negotiating a corner, which with controlled power application, makes the negotiation of a curve much more controlled with a static friction grip of the road all around, rather than even a four-wheel drift, relying in sliding friction of the tires.
Also, weight distribution of the power train in relation to the unloaded and loaded conditions of the vehicle would be much more even, which could provide for a highly tuned suspension system and steering precision.
You should have studied harder.
The biggest issue: lack of public chargers outside of main highways and larger towns. No wonder Toyota is heavily investing in hybrid technology instead.