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They will convert at precisely the moment it makes economic sense.
by pbj1968 3y ago
They will convert at precisely the moment it makes economic sense.
- rootusrootus 3y agoSome will. My brother in law is a hardcore Trump supporter and he drives a Chevy Bolt. The TCO on that car beats every ICE vehicle. Every last one. If it were just economics, EVs are a winner for the majority of average folks already. It's not that simple. Ideology is more important.
- bdcravens 3y agoThere are those who may not - those who see the EV subsidies as a symptom of the "woke mindvirus" and see fighting it as a matter of fighting for their overall way of life. They see the mandates some states are pushing as an assault on freedom, and a communist incursion, and the use of petroleum as a patriotic exercise.
- the_third_wave 3y agoRemove the partisan blather and you're on to something. It is the mandates, the top-down control based on incomplete and often false premises and the holier-than-thou attitude that drives people away from these "moon shot projects". Once EVs make economical and practical sense people will flock to them but that will take a while a while for many people, especially those with longer commutes and those who live in the more northerly/wintry areas. If you live in places where the sun always shines and have the space for a good-sized solar array it already makes sense, elsewhere - not so much.
- deprecative 3y agoSimple: remove all subsidies for ICE cars and everything they use.
- LastTrain 3y agoYeah… because f350s make so much economic sense…