I’ve never had any problems in rural Massachusetts (a very blue state, but I live in the red part of it.) I think a lot of EVs, like my Chevy Bolt, don’t look like anything in particular. Tesla drivers may have a different experience because they are more conspicuous.
Suits me fine. After driving sedans for decades, I’m kind of done with them. A car that sits up higher is easier to get in and out of.
The fact that we’re in a period, which may be temporary, when EV sales are not rising exponentially, does not mean that consumers are souring on them, or that they don’t represent good value. At some point the early-adopter market is sure to get saturated and we’ll move on to people who require more selling. Higher interest rates don’t help.
Meanwhile, the fossil-industrial complex will continue to churn out anti-EV propaganda with ridiculous claims like $17-per-gallon gas equivalence. Remember: EVs and other renewable-energy technologies directly threaten the interests of the wealthiest, most powerful, most profitable industry in the history of the world. Of course they’re going to flood the zone with BS about them.
Sounds like somebody else will get there first.
Lithium is not a rare earth metal. It is an alkali metal similar to sodium. And it isn’t rare. New deposits are being found all the time, all over the world.
The OP is full of ill-informed gobbledegook.
The EV math works much better if you mostly charge at home and have solar panels covering your electricity use. My “fuel” cost for my Bolt is essentially zero.
Others have mentioned new/used as a big factor. The problem there is that if you shop for a 3-4 year old EV, you are limited to the models that were being made 3-4 years ago, and the technology they had. It’s going to take time for manufacturers to build out their offerings and for game-changing technologies like vehicle-to-grid two-way charging to become standard. Then add 3-4 years for all of that to become available in used EVs.