100 years ago, the electric car proved itself to be the impractical, absurd joke that it remains today.
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100 years ago, the electric car proved itself to be the impractical, absurd joke that it remains today.
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Maybe. What this article shows however is that Tesla is forcing the Big Auto companies around the world to spend big bucks on electric car technology. All the gimlet green shade eyes on wall street love tesla. Consumer Reports gave the Tesla the best ratings they have ever given a car. Sales of the Tesla are going straight up.
Weighed against that is that every one of the knocks against the electric car on this thread are true. The electric car technology and infrastructure is not as good as the internal combustion engine.
Anyone familiar with technology knows that it starts out selling to the early adapters on whose backs the technology is refined. That’s what’s happening now.
I typically don’t buy a windows update until its been out at least 2 years because that’s how long it takes to get the bugs out of it. If all goes perfectly as predicted for the electric car, I’ll likely not buy one for another 10 years.
(Same goes for solar tech—because costs/convenience are steadily improving.)
That’s fine.
But you need to keep a weather eye on technology trends. It is not prudent to simply dismiss new technology out of hand. Technology has made an ass out of way too many people way too often for that.