Honestly what I don’t understand is: why are 60% still not fully electric? Given the current situation I would expect that number to be much higher.
Years of anti EV propaganda. It is pretty bad.
They are more expensive. I think people already spend too much on a car so spending even more is difficult. Its either that or picking a smaller/more basic car.
Not if you do the math of 8+ year ownership with fuel costs.
Having a charging point at home is also a issue. If you live in a apartment, you can request that whoever owns the building installs a charger. If you rent, thats even more difficult to get done. If you own your own house, you’ll have to install one. Or I guess you could use the regular power coming out of the wall, but AFAIK thats quite slow?
Wall power will give you 2kW/hr on 120V AC, 3.5kw/hr on 220V. So you could charge a battery overnight on 220V external wall outlet.
But the reality is EVs are not optimal for apartment renters unless municipalities change the codes.
We really need to tie car ownership to renting or owning a parking space near a persons primary residence. That would avoid that problem and also prevents people in large cities, who really do not need a car to buy one and have it park on a public road for ages.
Maybe. I’d rather focus on making public transportation and pedestrian infrastructure so good that people don’t even want to drive a car. Luckily I live in such a city, its not perfect of course, but its good enough that I waved good bye to my car last Saturday. I realised that the one or two times per year that I actually need a car, I need it for like a week. I can just rent a car, or borrow from someone, when the need comes. Other than that, I’ll just walk or ride the bus/tram.
True. Its an investment of sort.
They are not that much more expensive. Considering prices for new combustion cars…
In EU, many options for EVs from 19,000 to 25,000 euro. ICEs cost about the same.
Because not everyone can recharge it. Most of the people live outside the big cities, where there are few charging station (if any) or there is no way to recharge the car directly from your home.
Outside big cities there are more people owning property who can charge at home. Anecdotal evidence suggests it’s mostly boomers who value the flexibility of driving over 1000km in a row who are still buying cars with combustion engines. Are they ever driving that far? No. But they could in some kind of arcane emergency.
EV do not fit with everyone’s lifestyle and the reliability of VW EVs is a concern.
The solution to carbon issues does not have to be binary.
And the reliability of VW combustion vehicles is not?
VW ID s have been rife with software issues and battery fires.
ie:
https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/vw-id4-battery-fire-recall-canada-us/
Not really
If you just bought a fossil fueled car, you probably don’t have many options money wise.
My next car will be a full electric one for sure.
If bought a new fossil fueled car, especially a higher priced model, I don’t believe money is the problem.
Too bad their best feature was their internal combustion engines. Their new stuff is overpriced garbage
