They might be where you are, but here adoption is not the fast by comparison to say California, we have tons of cold weather and all.
But here's what I want to know. Why do we have a bunch of people who are hardcore EV fans posting a bunch of pro EV stuff on a DIESEL forum. It seems like the wrong place for it as we're slowly approaching the 400 page mark in this thread... not counting the other threads. I don't know it just seems inflammatory, for inflammatory reasons... I'm only speaking for myself here but maybe others feel the same.
While EV's are an interesting technology, more energy efficient for sure, they have drawbacks, and issues like any platform and any technology. What's good for you and your situation is not necessarily good for me and my situation.
Drawbacks of EVs:
1. Expensive AF when compared to an equivalent gas model / gas vehicle. Please do not use federal Tax credits in your calculation, that's just proping up an industry where every tax payer pays for it. Keep apples to apples for crying outloud. When EVs are literally the same price with no incentives that makes this a different disucssion. IE - When an E-Golf costs the same as a Golf TSI except options ofcourse. ( Tesla is in its' whole other category of cost - Yes i know you can get a model 3 for supposedly 35k -- But i could get a toyota camry 24.5k, honda accord for 24k, Subaru Legacy for 22.7k. Now you could say the model 3 doesn't compete with those cars but rather an A4, or a BMW 3 series. Well I'd argue they should because that market sells more than any other Please see camry, corolla, civi, and accord on this chart, and note they are all significantly less
https://www.statista.com/statistics/276419/best-selling-cars-in-the-united-states/ )
2. EV for most people cause some form of range anxiety, especially a non-tesla version since atleast around here the charging network for non-tesla is not great. I mean listen I know some of them have great range numbers, but really its' a psychological thing, and not everyones gotten over it. This goes away if they get charge times sub 5 minutes, with an ample charging network. Example not one every 50 miles. You know there are literally 10 gas stations / 3 diesel stations in a 3 mile radius of where i live that can each refill 12 cars at a time in sub 5 minutes each. Thats' the level of charging infrastructure I'm talking. Also if you live in an apartment charging is a PIA, ask us how we know with our E-Golf. More than 30% of the us population doesn't own a house.
3. While EV emissions while running are less than most ICE vehicles they are not Zero emissions. That is a farse due to energy grid. Those who think they're not charging off the grid from some normal source are delusional if they're plugged into the grid. Take our city where we live, they say that our power is 100% renewable from New York State ( We live in massachusetts ). That's ridiculous, its just cap and trade credits. Electricity is like water it goes to the path of least resistance, here in our city 2 years ago a Natural Gas Electricity generation plant was built, so guess where our "Clean Energy" really comes from. Also after fact checking Planet of the Humans --- Interesting to see all the natural gas plants popping up in the country as "green energy" to replace coal, but also to supply consistent full spun up power when all the "renewable sources" are not available. This is just cap and trade, they are producing more power, exchanging credits, and not spinning down fossil fuel energy production, they're spinning it up. And biomass is not even better. For EVs to be truly clean, the grid has to be fully clean, or atleast your home solar. The cleanest thing to do is NOT DRIVE. Yes I own a diesel but 3 years ago i figured out how to work permanently from home. My other half, her company after the pandemic is letting them go from working 1 day a week at home like she used to to 3. Between the two of use that removed 15,600 miles a year of driving from the road ( My part of it alone was 2,515,500 annual grams of CO2 ) ... if i switched to a Tesla and continued to drive that distance( Says on fuel economy.gov in my area model 3 is 90 g / mile -- Not that a model 3 would have suited my needs but best case ) I still would have been producing 585,000 annual grams of CO2 ).
4. Battery recycling -- Anyone know yet what's going to happen in 5 - 10 years when all these Tesla's and etc... start coming off of the road where the batteries will end up? Hope this is solved before we need it, or another source of huge pollution is coming.
I will admit that ICE vehicles on any type are far from perfect, they have more maintenance for sure... but EVs are not fully maintenance free... ask the "Electrified Garage". Engines can get choked out by emissions standards which make them less reliable( TDI / Diesel ). CVT's are dying in under 90k miles... etc... Cars are basically planned obsolescence.
I guess what I am saying is this place is literally for people discuss Diesel vehicles, other ICE vehicles, maybe even electrics... but no one needs the "Oh yeah EVs are on a rampage give it 5 years and all your dinosaurs are extinct!", or "EVs are perfect and ICE vehicles suck", or etc... It wouldn't be half bad idea for healthy discussions to take some of the edge out, and make it a discussion based on ideas and logic.