I'm glad you looked up the real number as I usually see estimates of 65% of USians or something like that living in apartments (zero of which have chargers installed in the parking lot of course).

But what you are saying is that no progress can be made on the other 66% who can install a home charger until absolutely every possible case is covered, which is not out of touch but simply pro-Big Oil propaganda.

Here come the edge cases! Apartments! Towing a trailer from San Diego to Maine. Driving from Little Rock to Boise to return that tool you borrowed but being back in time for work at 0700. Nothing is decided until everything is decided.

Sure, whatever.

Auto industry analysts and enthusiasts alike have a hard time understanding how Stellantis is still in business, particularly now that they have screwed up the Jeep line in North America. I wouldn't take them as indicative of anything.

Beg to differ a bit: while GM made some missteps, particularly in handing the VOLTEC technology over to their PRC subsidiary and dropping it in North America, they took their time to develop a well-engineered and manufacturable EV platform for the next 10-15 years. The problem is their executive team is now living in fear of what a fascist regime could do to them if they don't toe the line and that has given the anti-progress faction at GM operations HQ the chance to counterattack and put anchors on EV marketing and sales. Really a shame and it will cost them dearly over the next 20 years [1].

[1] the anti-progress faction at GM will be well-retired to their backwoods Michigan cabins with their 2,847hp offroad pickup trucks by then

There's only one question in my mind: when the United States wakes up 10 years from now and realizes we have fallen 20 years behind in basic and applied science, EVs, public transportation, and re-creating our built environment to center humans instead of machines (ok, we're already 30 years behind on that last) WHO ARE WE GOING TO BLAME?!? SOMEONE DID THIS TO US - THEY MUST BE PUNISHED!!!

"Electric vehicles are one of those things that are a really good idea in theory but out in the real world they are just simply unworkable. "

EVs are like the apocryphal bumblebee: they don't work in theory, yet millions of people use them every day with no more serious inconvenience than ICE vehicles experience from time to time (e.g. the mythical 'range anxiety' = running out of gas on a back road).

I've had people give me long lectures about the un-usability of EVs while I have driven them across the city, errands, and back on purely electric power in my PHEV.

They tested cookies made with butter vs cookies made with margarine, to see if children could tell the difference. Children could tell the difference, and preferred margarine. They believe the reason is: children are used to margarine, so butter tastes odd.

My guess is: if people are not used to drip coffee, it's not going to taste right.

The fuels are not made from fossils. How about carbon fuels?

Gillette became wealthy with safety razors well before WWII. The idea was to make something disposable so people would keep buying.
I think the same was true with ballpoint pens.

RFK Jr can also point you to a company selling magic juices, fully natural of course, that will prevent cancer. No connection with his own bank account.

Here in CO, I can fill up my gas burner with just a credit card, or even cash. Even at a gas station that I have never visited before. Any gas station will do, I don't need to find a station that uses some special nozzle, or only accepts certain apps.

But to charge my EV at a charging station, I need to download apps, and join a network, and maybe jump through other hoops. It can take a half hour before I can even get started. And not many charging stations accept my CHAdeMO standard, so I need another special app to find those. My phone better be well charged.

"But I HAVE to be able to hitch the travel trailer to the pickup and drive to Grandma's house in Maine with half my household goods aboard every summer!"

[Narrator: last time he made that drive was in 2018]

The ability of archaic ICE vehicle lovers to come up with absurd edge cases for everyday persons (note: not long distance trucks, farm equipment, or heavy machinery which will probably need diesel engines for a long time yet) never ceases to amuse me. Yeah, sure, you need to drive to Boise and back this afternoon; gotcha.

> A Windows licensed device for $60? Wonder how many hours in Hades that’ll run ya.

Works just fine. Never had a minute's problem with it. Here is a video reviewing it:

Here’s What a Sub-$100 Laptop Looks Like - Evolve III Maestro Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_iFhhAUuWY

> The machine you singled out is just useless.

No it isn't. I use it. If it won't run Windows 11, just put mxlinux on it.

Or did I misunderstand the article?