EV sales now account for just over 90% of new cars in Norway. This in a country with a winter that’s brutal on range and where people love to drive 2-6 hours to

EV sales now account for just over 90% of new cars in Norway. This in a country with a winter that’s brutal on range and where people love to drive 2-6 hours to get to their cabin on top of a mountain. I also regularly see people write about their road trips to the other side of Europe on forums. I’d call that a pretty good demonstration that EVs are a real replacement for ICE at this point for a range of conditions (one exception I will grant you for now is if you have a heavy trailer you intend to drive long distance with) There’s also not EV models for all niches, mainly because car companies haven’t had time to design them. Yes, the economics in other countries is not as good and the infrastructure isn’t as good. But that has nothing to do with the capabilities of the vehicle itself. The claim that the battery of a modern battery could outlast the vehicle and be on the order of 500k miles doesn’t seem at all unreasonable to me. Especially for LiFePo. Our old 2015 Kia Soul EV looks like it will reach about 150k miles on its original battery. But most vehicles now have 2-4 times bigger battery, with better chemistry and much better thermal management. Bigger batteries means it’s much less likely that it will be driven down to below 10%. More likely that the owner will cap charging to 80% to reduce battery degradation and much less use of fast charging. So we’re talking about several layers of non-linear reductions in battery degradation. We fast charged the old Kia all the time. Our Ioniq 5 we haven’t needed to fast charge a single time.