It's amazing how many people commenting here effectively refuse to acknowledge that there are ways (and more than one!) in which ICE cars are better than EVs and want to believe that no one could rationally decide on different trade-offs.
I own and EV, and I love it. But pretending the paradigm shift comes with no undesirable trade-offs is absurd. And wanting everyone to come to a uniform decision about what they value is a great example of technocratic tyranny.
I live in a condo. We have four charging ports and about a dozen EV owners.
Unless I'm hyper-focused on something, I'm lazy. On the off chance I get lucky and get a charging port, I'm not going to remember to go out in two hours or whatever to move it for someone else to use. I'd probably be getting angry emails for sitting in the charging port for days at a time.
Moreover, I frequently catch myself near empty on the tank. I like that I can find a gas station anywhere and fix the situation almost immediately. I had to sit and wait on a friend's charging once, and it's not something I look forward to.
The whole usage pattern around EVs frankly scares me.
It's so much easier to try to shame and gaslight people into believing their problems are fake than it is to fix those problems. The "range anxiety" idea is going to be particularly important as EV tech matures and midmarket vehicles have to start being made, because those vehicles are going to absolutely suck. Right now almost all of the ones we talk about are luxury cars, of course they they fantastic performance and features, but the 20k new car of the future is going to look like the electric Mini Cooper. Estimated range of a bit over 100 miles with a 7 second 0-60. Basically an ICE car but with dramatically worse range.
It's amazing how many people commenting here effectively refuse to acknowledge that there are ways (and more than one!) in which ICE cars are better than EVs and want to believe that no one could rationally decide on different trade-offs.
I own and EV, and I love it. But pretending the paradigm shift comes with no undesirable trade-offs is absurd. And wanting everyone to come to a uniform decision about what they value is a great example of technocratic tyranny.