This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I'm only interested when the vehicles are simple and affordable and the charging stations are fast and ubiquitous.
Which will be 20 years.
People seem to forget gas cars took 50+ years to become widely adopted. They were not really accessible to the middle and lower classes until after WW2.
For some reason people here just want to scream and moan and browbeat anyone who doesn't want to buy an EV today, when they are unaffordable, inconvenient, and make zero sense unless all you do is commute to work and run local errands. Lots of vehicles are used for different purposes.
I wouldn't call any car affordable these days so that's a moot point. The rest of your description of EVs is not accurate at all. I drive an EV long distances across rural Montana regularly. If it works for me I can guarantee it would work wherever you are.
Can i work on it? It's it as serviceable as my Subaru? Are the parts as cheap? Cost of ownership seems to be a topic no one talks about.
Can i work on it?
This is a big one, if I can't fix it myself then I don't technically own it and a LOT of modern cars are in the same boat of making parts availability hell and the ability to fix them requiring special software tools.
What does this headline even mean?
Are electric horses better than gas powered horses or what?
Yeah, it's phrased in a weird way.
He is saying that when cars were becoming popular, lots of people insisted that horses were better. Over time, basically everyone realized that cars are better.
Now electric cars are becoming popular, although lots of people insists that ICE cars are better.
He is saying that over time, people against electric cars will change their mind, just like the horse-people did.
EV's are great! We save so much time and effort not having to cheat on emissions testing this way.
The overall technology of EV is better than ICE but that doesn't mean every EV is better than every ICE.
Cars may be better than horses but no horse ever exploded the way a Ford Pinto would.
