What Happened to Electric Vehicle Sales?

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California demanding that everyone go out and get an EV a week before they told everyone to stop charging their EVs pretty much sums up my concerns.

We all know that an Apple EV would have required a proprietary adapter.

The crazy thing is subsidies are largely going to people who are pretty well off to buy mostly luxury EV's , on top of that a large proportion are being bought by companies for the tax breaks - when those cars hit the used market there are often no takers.

a rental car clerk advised me against renting an electric car when me and my family went to Orlando Florida las year. He said if you take an electric, you won't enjoy your vacation. Trust me, go with the regular car, he said.

My sister just drove in a rented EV from Paris to us in Tyrol, Austria. The charging network is an unnecessarily complicated clusterfuck of apps and standards. It's put all of us off of getting an EV

to be fair, literally everything "has a lower profit margin than Apple consumer electronics"

Temperature extremes would be a huge problem where I live. Temps are between -35C and 30-40C where I live. The battery life would be shot so quickly. In Chicago which is pretty close to where I live, tons of cars were getting stranded because the batteries and chargers couldn’t handle the cold.

The level of hypocrisy of Norway is unbeatable!

Expensive to buy Expensive to repair Expensive to insure Rapid depreciation Range anxiety Lack of qualified mechanics Long wait times for parts Poor charging infrastructure Need to spend a lot of money to get fast charging set up at home. Very few options if you rent or live in an apartment. I'll pass

I drove Monaco to Paris last summer. 100% of the chargers were either broken or required some crazy app to make work. Most just had red Xs on them and didn’t work.

As a Norwegian that has owned 3 ev's, and a hybrid and my current car is an ev. I think what you are saying makes a lot of sense. Our nabouring countries are adopting ev's at a faster pace now, so it's easier to drive long distances, but the charging issue is what everyone finds frustrating. Another point about the charging is lack of roadsigns and you have to have several apps, instead of bein able to pay by card or cash. I've been in a situation with low battery on my phone and poor cell service and trying to download yet another charging app in the rain, it gets your blood boiling.. There are also positives worth mentioning, especially if you live by a big freeway or in a town center, the airpolution has gone down considereably in the last years, it's noticable and that's a big pluss in my book. Noise levels have also dropped.

You and Brian from Clearvalue taxes are literally the only 2 people I watch , I remember when people would call you boring when you were at 30k subs , now your literally catching half a million views in less then a week, proud to see you grow Patrick thank you for the direct and no BS straight forward information.

People: barely have enough money for rent and groceries Economists: "Hey, why the slow down in buying a new car!?"

Looking back on it, it's not too shocking that rental EVs didn't work. When you go to a strange place, you won't know where the charging stations are, your hotel may not have chargers, and obviously you won't have a access to a home charging system. There's too many unknowns to be comfortable with. EVs really only work if you have a routine that includes charging stations, or you don't have to drive that much.

Doubt very many people will ever buy a second EV. Maybe the shift should have been more hybrid focused rather than straight to full electric.

I'm 65 and work from home. The only driving I do all week is a 3 mile round trip to the supermarket. It is not worth spending 50,000 plus on an EV for my weekly mileage. In the UK in 2035 16.9 million people will be retired. 25-30% of the adult population will be retired. Yet the government wants them to own EVs when they do little more than the weekly shopping trip. To me it does not make sense.

The fact that there is no way of knowing the state of the battery of a used EV is almost a showstopper.

The problem is most new EVs are luxury cars, SUVs or both. Who gives a damn if an EV maker slashes the cost of their new car from $60,000 to $50,000 when most car buyers can't afford that EV at either price?

I live in rural Colorado. Most drives between towns and to Denver are 2-5 hours, 120-300 miles. EV ranges are around 300-350 miles so every round trip requires a recharge and even some one way trips would require a recharge. Further, in the winter, the mountain passes legally require 4-wheel drive which knocks down the fully charged range by 1/3. So for around 4 months a year the effective range is 200-250 miles for trips that are 120-300 miles long. They don’t work in our part of the country PERIOD.