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IMO: as an answer to your question of why: Inertia, Investment, (existing) Infrastructure, and greed. Investment and profit to be made off of it also relate t
by mjevans 2y ago
IMO: as an answer to your question of why:
Inertia, Investment, (existing) Infrastructure, and greed.
Investment and profit to be made off of it also relate to lobbying, laws, and further investment.
Some related issues for electric vehicles are the increased load on power grid/supply, how Internal Combustion Engines provide (relatively) free heat in cold climates, and that cold snaps require vehicles with batteries to self-heat.
They're issues that have some solutions, but it's not wave a wand at things and they're fixed. The problem also reminds me of connectivity in houses, where by now we should have at least gigabit ports in every room, but increasingly consumers see houses barely suitable for wifi and cell connections.
There are things the market just won't self select despite the good involved for consumers. Maybe if we vote for non-idiots there will eventually be regulation to help.
- newsclues 2y agoWhy is it so hard to admit or understand that the transition hasn’t happened yet at critical mass scale because the technology is more expensive and not equal or better than ICE for consumers? When a product is better and cheaper, inertia is overcome and consumers switch! Go look up the historical transitions of fuel sources!
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoThis only works if all externalities (e.g. global costs of greenhouse gas production, pollution,...) are correctly priced in.
- PlunderBunny 2y agoBy that logic also, everyone would by expensive razors and cheap razor blades because they would see that it costs less in the long term than cheap razors and expensive blades.