Ev’s never took off years ago because much or most of the rural population had no electrical power.
It was easier and cheaper to transport gas.
See The Power of the land vieo below - a farm in Warnock Ohio getting electrical power for the first time in 1939.
Warnock Ohio is 15 miles away from Wheeling W.va..one of the richest and most developed and highest manfacturing base cities in the country per capita in 1900 so it is not as if it is out in the middle of nowhere.
My grandpaps farm in hollars of W.va did not get electricity until early 40’s and that was due to a civilian works project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZchKXFpaDg
As it was long ago, and is so today, EV's are ok for those in urban areas where charging stations abound, shorter distances are traveled, and drivers aren't worried about the time to charge.
When I'm out delivering or buying goods in remote South Dakota, I can't be bothered with finding a charging station nor afford the time to do that when I'm 2000 miles from headquarters. I don't want a three day trip turning into a week long trip.
It was easier and cheaper to transport gas.
And it still is. Is it easier to bring gas to stranded cars on I95 in Virginia or is it easier to bring batteries/chargers to the same?
You, like most other EV-nerds, live in Fantasy Land.
EVs took off when the GOVERNMENT decided upon itself to offer tax breaks to buyers as an incentive. In fact, your President, Joe Biden, has very generous tax incentives written into his Build Back Better bill that you would love him to pass. More bait for folks to buy something.
When the first ones, Tesla’s, hit the market they were going for over $100k. Toys for Rich Boys. In Georgia, the rich guy that wanted a cool Tesla, Sunday Driver, got a tax break.
Take away the tax breaks and the only folks buying them, for the most part, are liberal hipsters thinking they’re doing something for the environment. But, of course, since the lithium and nickel mining isn’t happening down the street they can conveniently ignore the devastation caused by that mining.
Additionally, folks like you and other EV-nerds never want to admit that your cars are powered by the mean, old, ugly fossil fueled power plant, far, far away. Again, since it isn’t happening down the street, it doesn’t exist.
Folks in rural America, NOT liberals that move to a small country town or the mountains because they think it’s cute, drive pick-ups with gas or diesel.