Yes, and the options for charging them gotta get more affordable too. Electric car no bueno w/o juice.....
Indeed....
And you can't have decent charging solutions until you improve the electric grids to be more reliable and resilient to damage from the many natural disasters we've been experiencing lately.
Out here in California, fires are a big problem, because when they sweep through communities, virtually all the infrastructure is damaged or destroyed, and power lines (along with telephone and cable lines, which in many older/more rural places often share pole-space with the power lines) are usually among the first utilities to go (indeed, more often than not, faulty power lines have actually been the cause of numerous very large and destructive fires in recent years (the October 2017 firestorm in Santa Rosa, CA and the November 2018 Camp fire in Paradise, CA, to name a couple).
I think before we go wholesale into EVs, as I said above, we need to get the power grids into a condition that can support the necessary charging infrastructure.
Until that happens, EVs will remain little more than ultra expensive toys for the millionaires and billionaires of the world (and maybe also those lucky enough to live in or near one of the relatively few areas (big cities and their immediate suburbs, mostly) where charging stations are common).
That being said, I think EVs are in a state now that they
can be practical (for example, GM says the Silverado EV's estimated range is about 400 miles, which is pretty good for an EV, especially one as heavy as a pickup), but, again, no chargers + no infrastructure to support them = no EVs.
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