“Gaslone stop gives me about 450 miles in 5 minutes... and I can find a fuel pump at just about every interstate exit, not plan my my trip around where an electric recharging station might be... you can’t win this..”
Tesla has over 10,000 super charging stations, mostly located along the interstates.
There are over 168,000 gas stations in the United States, and your charging station is the equivalent of a PUMP which means take that number and multiply it by about 8, and there are well over 1,000,000 gas pumps in the US... Tesla’s 10,000 charging stations in parking garages of hotels isn’t remotely the infrastructure needed to replace combustion.
Electric is a commuter, toy for the wealthy or second vehicle.. its niche and it is NOT about to be something different anytime soon.
If you have to plan your trip around where you are going to find your fuel... well, you aren’t replacing combustion that way. Eventually electricity may get there.... but its NOT EVEN CLOSE today, and the idea it will be 90% of the market in 30 years is pie in the sky dreaming you tell folks to get them to give you money... Its not reality.
for 90% saturation of a market to a new technology, you have to BEAT hands down BEAT the existing technology and Electric is nowhere near that... Not on any measure, it cant even MEET existing combustion... The only way you get 90% market rollover to a new technology short of regulatory force is to BEAT the existing tech, and electric is nowhere near that. It may get there, but its not even in the ballpark yet.
Hybrid tech is now nearly 20 years old, and its complete cumulative sales volume is about 25% of 1 years worth of car sales.... So in 17 years they have cumulatively sold about 1/4 of the combustion vehicles sold EVERY SINGLE YEAR... Pure Electric isn’t anywhere near hybrid on market penetration so to believe in 30 years it will be 90% of the market is just wishful thinking. Only mandating the outlaw of combustion would make that anything close to a reality.