You better be really good at rust repair not to be a 10K bill at the local body shop if they touch it at all.

I agree with the US and China being the biggest polluters, and by a large margin. However the Third World has worse environmental results from their combustion addiction, and needs addressed just as much.

Yeah, that’s the thing. In order to create a plan that is going to work to save the planet, we have to actually consider everyone who lives on it.

Not to mention that cars were a significant improvement on horses. Anyone that thinks horses are easy to take care of and feed either has a large ranch, or never owned a horse. Horses are finicky and expensive animals. Burros and oxen are cheaper, but do tend to get abused a lot.

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Such dismissive First World arrogance about the needs of 2/3 of the globe’s population doesn’t look good on you. You can wear that attitude if you want. But it doesn’t change the facts at all.

“As much” meaning relative, considered in relation or in proportion to something else.

they already have double digit market share in a lot of places

I think we should all chip in and buy this property for David Tracy to store his Jeep collection and start a museum.

I mean this is true, but a lot more emphasis in your statement needs to be on “quickly”.

You should travel in rural Central or South America, and see how often that the main transport still is a horse or a burro. When they DO have an internal combustion vehicle, it’s usually a small 4WD.

Cost is still an issue too. EVs are awesome, but like all the best tech, they don’t come cheap at the beginning. This decade, the focus needs to be on smaller, lighter, cheaper EVs that can rely on a more robust charging network. We have plenty of Porsches with 800 horsepower. Now we need more cars that the average…

Source?

You sound like a perfect case for a PHEV van or wrangler though!

Which means that range is more important than it previously was.

As a homeowner with an attached garage with a 20 mile round trip commute and a spouse with a 30 mile round trip commute I want an EV but I have a 1 year old minivan and a 9 year old wrangler. The van just did a 2000 mile drive this week with 3 dogs and very rural areas and I frequently spend days on backcountry trails…

Average driving distance per day is arguably irrelevant to the conversation about range anxiety.

Making a separate post for my actual predictions:

Will 2022 be the year electric cars finally take off, or will it be the year they die entirely.

oil leak?