thirdcrank wrote:kwackers
I've no doubt that if at the time when society was beginning to switch from horses to horsepower, had there been a choice of steam, hydrocarbon or battery-power as we know it today, then the latter would be what's nowadays called a no-brainer. The reality is that there's well over a century of development and marketing which has influenced people's current decisions. Logic really doesn't come into it, or rather applying logic needs to look at the history to make sense. IMO a good example here is personal ownership of the private car. Every logical argument is against it, but that hasn't stopped an awful lot of people arguably wasting an awful lot of their money to have a car.
Logic is what will encourage people to make the change in the end though.
When I tell people I paid less than a tenner to do 2000 miles their jaws hit the floor.
When they point out EV's are expensive and you point out that the extra monthly cost of the EV is less than their monthly fuel bill then you can see the seeds have been planted.
Then there's the driving experience...
I think the tipping point has been reached.
As more and more people know folk with EV's and begin to see others not only getting on with them but saving a small fortune it becomes progressively harder to see why anyone would buy a new IC car.
Throw in the loss of economies of scale for IC cars and their fuel and there really is only one direction.
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