Cost of Driving an EV

LocuMob said

Not quite the same change in propulsion with a horse vs car, and ic vs ev. The roads are in place, and when cars first came out, they weren't and that was a major hurdle.

As for the mandate, the state just adopted California's ev requirement/law whatever it was we copied. Doesn't make a lot of sense for a state in cold weather half the year.

Yes, ev buying is going up each year, but by how much? Not as fast as laws are being crated, adpoted, copied. Demand is not outpacing market supply. I believe that ev's account for around 2% of total vehicles on the road at the current moment. So we have 14 years before no more ic powered vehicles will be made, if things remain the way they are, and they won't. How many will be on the road by then, 10, maybe 15%?

I think a better example would be diesel replacing steam on the railways, new propulsion mode using existing infrastructure. But that was a demand based change, not a forced decision for the rail industry.

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LocuMob said

Not quite the same change in propulsion with a horse vs car, and ic vs ev. The roads are in place, and when cars first came out, they weren't and that was a major hurdle.

As for the mandate, the state just adopted California's ev requirement/law whatever it was we copied. Doesn't make a lot of sense for a state in cold weather half the year.

Yes, ev buying is going up each year, but by how much? Not as fast as laws are being crated, adpoted, copied. Demand is not outpacing market supply. I believe that ev's account for around 2% of total vehicles on the road at the current moment. So we have 14 years before no more ic powered vehicles will be made, if things remain the way they are, and they won't. How many will be on the road by then, 10, maybe 15%?

I think a better example would be diesel replacing steam on the railways, new propulsion mode using existing infrastructure. But that was a demand based change, not a forced decision for the rail industry.

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I think you are comparing the modern car to a horse as propulsion units. The cars that were available at that time were not the obvious winners of the horse vs horseless carriage contest. We also have the benefit of hind site knowing the outcome of this contest for consumers pocketbooks. At that time in the past the outcome was not so obvious. Roads at that time were not well suited for horse and carriage or horseless carriage. People back then thought the new technology was "too dangerous" as if there was no danger in operating a horse and carriage. The danger we are familiar with always seems less scary than danger we are not familiar with. We see the same arguments today used against the ev. Pointing out all the new dangers of the ev while ignoring the familiar dangers of the ic. Seems like it's just human nature to do so.
I don't know how many ev or ic cars there will be in 14 years. I don't know how many there were 14 years ago but if you exclude hybrids probably not many.