2028 is a long way off

Yup, well down for supporting the billionaires over the working class, and supporting the erosion of worker rights across the world…

Maybe you shouldn’t go online and rant at the world for somebody else using a service they pay for.

For gasoline you also have all the transportation infrastructure that has fixed costs l, but is distributing less product.

So you’re basically looking at mid-high 3ne cars (and somehow cross shopping a 3 row SUV with a pickup truck), and your conclusion is the costs are within <$500/year comparing between all of them over 10 years. And that the EV is wlevwr so slightly the cheapest option. Then you conclude that EVe are horribly impracticallt expensive.

That logic doesn’t make sense. Your concluding numbers basically indicate that all of them are equally financially viable within uncertainty of your assumptions, and you should make your choice on other grounds.

It’s an awkward time for manufacturers. They are pouring billions into brand new factories for EVs and batteries, and on R&D for these. Whi h won’t start really paying off for 5-10 years. So during these period they have big losses on paper. Give it 5 years for that main manufacturing capacity to be online and selling vehicles, and we could see things start to fall significantly.

‘Silent majority’ of ALL people probably don’t care about the environment. It’s likely a higher fraction of early EV adopters who ‘care about the environment’, but still a good chunk who don’t.

None of that actually matters. What matters is what mode of transport is best environmentally, regardless of the specific reasons an individual has for choosing it.

Currently, that hierarchy roughly goes:

1. Active transport (Foot/biking)

2. 3+ person car pooling EV

3. Public Transit

4. 3+ person car pooling ICEV

5. Single-occupancy EV

6. Single-occupancy ICEV

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Depending on specifics of the grid in your area, options 4 & 5 could flip order. And in areas with high utilization of transit, 2 & 3 could flip.

But main point is still that for the same use case, EV > ICEV.