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Originally Posted by logicators
Flawed analogy. Cars represented a paradigm shift in transportation and made things possible that were unthinkable in the past (like the great American coast to coast road trip). EVs are just another way to power cars. They don’t make transportation more convinient, or cheap, not for now anyway. They actually require a compromise. You need to plan your trips around the available infrastructure. They will see mass adoption when 1) charging stations are as common as gas stations, 2) charging times are comparable to or better than filling gas in a car and 3) their acquisition and maintenance costs, and resale prices are comparable to or better than their ICE counterparts.
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But, But, But we are stupid and stuck with our horse drawn
CARRAIAGE.
Perhaps these people do not know the first electric car appeared in 1884 before the ICE was invented by Mercedes in 1885. It was the electric vehicle that went the way of the dinosaur in favor of the ICE.
No matter what the source of power the power has to be generated somehow, and almost all those somehows damage the environment. Until we start building safe, reliable nuclear power plants the issue will not begin to be resolved.
And then India and China can go from creating 90% of the worlds pollution to 99%. In the world of protecting the environment, what the US does is simply irrelevant.