The reason is avoiding doubling the the battery needs (car+house) when solar panels are available. A modern compact house with proper insulation and heat pump needs overnight less then 20 kwh in the worst winter days. Being able to use one quarter of the battery when the sun is down, recharged the day after, would be really money and environmentally effective. Why buying a fixed home battery like powerwall in a future where most of the time at least a mobile battery (a car) would always be connected to the home grid?

Climate emergency became a divisive political issue many years ago, and you know how stupidly ends when this happens.

Also, we’re becoming an society of old peoples, and people tend to be from skeptical to averse to everything born after their 40th.

Furthermore, cars and its dirty ICE mechanics is still deeply felt as something epically manly, which again triggers many middle aged man feeling the EV a blasphemous attack to their inner self.

In brief: it’s just the fucking reactionary boomers fighting back as hard as they realize their way of life is dying.

Because with EV is possible and easy, while technically is the engineer dream being able to freely adjust the torque on front and back train, because is much much more effective and efficient.

And no, il would not be less expensive: transmission costs, fitting it is difficult, and anyway you’ll have to double the power of the unique engine to have the same total torque and power- which could be even more expensive than two engines.

I don’t think money saving could or should be the main reason. If you want to save money, going smaller is the first way to. Buying a used car, too. Driving less, even more.

We buy expensive cars because we like them and driving them. Nobody really needs going from 0 to 100km/h in lesser than 15 seconds, or a glass rooftop,or hi-fi audio, and so on many of the things we spend money into.

So, ask yourself: how much you value a car that both is faster than an ICE equivalent and have lesser power consumption (and ecological footprint)? How much you value driving without that noise and that smelly trail?

Everyday money saving it’s a nice addition, but not nowadays a real reason - at least until they start making you pay for environmental externalities when you burn petrol.

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