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catketch 16 hours ago

Different take: depreciated EVs mean they are more affordable on the used market, making them accessible to more people that can't make a $50-80K+ new vehicle work for their budgets. First adopters and EV enthusiast will continue to push the new market, but the tent opens up for more drivers. The next hurdle will be solving disparity of convenience between those that can have home chargers and those that live in apartments or with street parking.

At least in the 4-5 years ago, there was not much of a used market, not much vehicle choice beyond Tesla that was good price/performance, and tough going on charging infrastructure (again outside of Tesla)

That landscape has not completely changed, but it is much different. There's a lot of actual vehicle choice (even if most are still some type of SUV/CUV), and charging situation is reasonable, especially with opening up of NACS

There's a big component of political action against EVs, solar, etc but I think it will just slow, not stop the momentum in the US. With 2 BEVs and a PHEV, I don't see our family going back to ICE vehicles. I miss manual transmissions, that's about it