Electric Vehicles: A Pleasant Surprise? Maybe?

[dewline]

Looking at this for a few minutes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/09/electric-cars-have-hit-inflection-point/620233/?utm_source=feed

I didn't think things were moving this quickly on the global scale in terms of cars and trucks. Yes, the manufacturing process is still messy as Hell. But are we making progress of some sort here? I think the answer to that question is "yes".

armiphlage, autopope, you might have some informed context to add here...? Anyone else?

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[malada]

I'll remind everyone that General Motors had the EV-1 back in 1997. It was fully electric and well liked among those that drove them.

Only a handful were allowed to be sold - most were leased. People who leased them loved them. They wanted them. They had checkbooks out ready to buy them.

General Motors stopped production, took all the leased cars and *destroyed* them. No electric cars for you!

So we could have been driving electric cars for over 20 years. So all the *whining* about how hard it is to build electric cars gets no sympathy from me.

[dewline]

Well, that reluctance is over and done now, apparently.

There are clearly reasons why there was a documentary entitled The Revenge of the Electric Car released in 2011, yes?