Actually, the biggest reason that adoption rates are much, much higher in Australia (despite lack of infrastructure), is that Australia has access to less expensive vehicles imported from China and SK.

The US, otoh, is too busy trying to protect its legacy automakers, who, much as they did in the 70s, decided to ignore trends and continue to sell oversized, overpriced, gas-guzzling vehicles for as long as they could convince the American market to buy them.

"You presume they have the available funds to update the household. It's an easy thing for early adopters who tend to be wealthier. Its another things for the mass market that is more budget conscious. And may also live in older homes that may need some modernization for the charger installation."

Level one charging can in fact be sufficient for those with commutes less than or equal to the national average. It even works for longer commutes to "top off" the battery during the week and hitting the afore-mentioned Walmart or other charger on the weekend while shopping.

"What is “local” is different in the US and EU.."

Again, you focused on the EU while ignoring China and Australia. Australia, in particular, almost exactly mirrors the US in regard to size and driving patterns. But again, local is local. The average commute in the US is 27min. It's 25min in the EU. Australia takes 63.7 minutes! (And before you start on transit, driving is the still most common way to get to work in Europe, with 59% of EU workers using private cars as their primary mode of transportation,)

"They’ve done far better with the public infrastructure required "

Nope. The United States has a significantly more extensive and robust public charging infrastructure than Australia. The US benefits from a massive rollout of Tesla Superchargers open to all EVs, billions in federal NEVI (National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure) funding, and rapid deployment of high-voltage (800V) stations by networks like Electrify America and Ionna.

Your arguments are a couple of years out of date, and again keep focusing on how we're so "different" from the rest of the world.

We're not that exceptional.

The difference was almost entirely to FORCIBLY OBSOLETE a ton of perfectly serviceable machines merely because they came with TPM 1.2 or less from the manufacturer, or they had a CPU "not quite new enough," because OEMs were screaming "we need to force people to trash computers and spend money buying new hardware from us."

OEMs started salivating at Apple's "3 year old hardware? Fuck you, throw it in the trash and buy something new" sales model and demanded MS start doing the same thing.

If someone like MachineShedFred is getting a forced reboot in the middle of the day, it's because he's the Dumb Fucking Retard who's been pushing "delay" on the machine over and over and "sleeping" the machine during the mandatory reboot times rather than save his work and pick a sensible moment, and now he's run past the mandatory delay allowance. He's known this reboot was coming, he just chose to IGNORE it and be a whiny little bitch about it.

Most IT departments have no idea how to set up automatic updating properly so that it still gets the job done, but doesn't piss off the users that you can't really piss off...

Most Dumb Fucking Retard Users like MachineShedFred imagine that they are above the requirements that IT have been ordered to apply to everyone, or that they've found some magical "workaround" to the system. I have no sympathy for his bullshittery.

Elon Musk is an anagram for Leon Skum. He's a white-supremacist inbred Nazi Shitrat who masturbates every night to his fantasy of restoring the Apartheid regime that made his Disgusting Nazi Cuntrat Dad and Shitty Nazi Whorebag Momma "rich" from gem mining run using slave labor.

MAGA are all disgusting inhuman inbred trash who would happily hold the match to light that cross. They're Sick White-Supremacist Evil Sociopathic Inbred Shit, no exceptions.

MAGAtrash are all inbred crossburning Klan Shits. Every one of them will do nothing but gaslight and lie to you, because they're Subhuman Fucking Disgusting Sociopaths and dangers to humanity.

As an EV owner, I have to disagree with most of what you said.

The U.S. driving pattern also isn’t nearly as unique as it’s often portrayed. Like Europe, most driving consists of commuting, errands, and local trips. Roughly 90% of Americans live in urban or suburban areas, and only a minority take multiple long-distance road trips each year.

Charging infrastructure has improved enormously in just the past few years. Companies like Shell and Walmart are building networks alongside Tesla, and even my local Walmart in the Midwest has chargers. Chargers continue to get faster, but even today’s charging times often line up with the rest stops or meal breaks I’d be making on a road trip anyway.

About two-thirds of U.S. households own their homes, giving them access to some form of home charging. The biggest challenge remains apartment dwellers, where charging infrastructure still lags. That’s a legitimate issue, but it’s an infrastructure problem, not a flaw inherent to EVs.

And it’s worth noting that EV adoption has surged in countries like China and Australia, the latter having driving distances and population distribution that are often compared to the U.S.

I’m just tired of hearing that America is somehow “special,” and that technologies and solutions working successfully in much of the rest of the world are uniquely destined to fail here.

It is more than that. Americans are buying a few more EVs, but by and large most of the sales are going to oversized, overweight, fully automatic SUVs and pickup trucks.

On one hand they've bought into Detroit marketing that tells them that's what they want and need... and on the other, it may in fact be what they need since US obesity rates are at all time highs.

Many simply don't fit in small sedans and sport cars any more.

Delete yourself dmb you Dumb Fucking Retarded Inbred GOP Nazi Shit Klan Fuckwit. You're not even human you fucking cockroach.

You need to stop lying, Senile Fucking Treason Shit Klan Bitchbag Tony. End yourself, delete yourself from humanity you Nazi Affiliated Ku Klux Trash Bitch KKKunt.

Nixon and Reagan were LITERALLY shit-eating Treason Fucking Traitors to the USA.

Nixon went behind Johnson's back to end peace negotiations in Vietnam, getting tens of thousands of our troops killed so he could win an election, including my uncle. He should have been put in front of a firing squad and shot dead for the TREASON he committed.

Reagan did worse, going behind Carter's back, telling the Iranians to keep holding CIVILIAN HOSTAGES in exchange for a weapons deal. Reagan was a shit-eating Klan Fucking White Supremacist Bitch Traitor to the USA.

No member of the GOP can ever be trusted. They are ALL America-hating Treasonous White-Supremacist Scumass Bitch CRIMINAL TRASH.

It's insider trading, 100% illegal, you dumb fucking Retarded GOP Shitbag Treason Bitch Cunt.

Acquitted by the Senate. Read the Constitution and what it says about trials, and then go fuck yourself, DMB, you TreasonCunt AmericaHating ConstitutionHating ReTARDican Fucking Useless Bitchrat.

It was when TreasonBitch Nixon betrayed our country going behind the POTUS's back to torpedo peace negotiations and caused tens of thousands of our troops to die in an ongoing, unnecessary war.

It was when Crossburning Treason Trash Shitbag Reagan went behind the POTUS's back to make his Devil's Deal with Iran to keep the hostages in return for a weapons payout later. And when Shitass TreasonCunt Reagan tried to give Nixon's hatchetman a seat on the Supreme Court and helped Oliver North stay out of jail for the TREASON of the Iran-Contra Affair.

The lesson is that ALL MEMBERS OF THE GOP, ALL RETARDICANS, ARE SHITASS GARBAGE TRAITORS TO THE USA.