I don't disagree, but there's one major difference at play here. Those early horseless carriages--and maybe even the first ~9 decades of automobiles--were objec

I don't disagree, but there's one major difference at play here. Those early horseless carriages--and maybe even the first ~9 decades of automobiles--were objectively simple, maintainable, rebuildable machines. Many examples from that early era are still running. None of them had proprietary computer systems, delicate plastic parts, etc. I think it's substantially less likely that there will be any vehicles from the first couple decades of this century running 100 years from now. And it's an important part of sustainability, cost of ownership, etc. It's hard to see the point in owning a vehicle from this century unless manufacturers start building them to be good transportation tools instead of what they appear to have become--a means to sell a financial instrument (a car loan), an ads serving platform, and a data collection mechanism. For me personally that is really the biggest barrier to owning an EV.