They Are Trying to Kill the Electric Car Again

Interesting that this and many other articles mention the importance of a home charger.

In Australia and the UK you don't need a home charger, as the normal standard socket is sufficient to add 200kms or so overnight. Plenty for the typical user.

This info is often the most surprising thing that people learn when they talk to an actual EV driver.

I would've thought USA would have enough for many as well, but perhaps only 100km overnight.

UK: 13A, 220 V. Aus: 10A 240V. USA: 15A 115V

Doesn't help those in apartments or condos which don't have a outlet in the garage.

This is a good point:

"The fact that European and American manufacturers have concentrated on the premium market of early adopters has left them vulnerable. Chinese manufacturers like MG haven’t been so reluctant to address affordability, and there are other brands from China waiting in the wings to steal market share, such as BYD, just like Japanese carmakers did in the 1970s and 80s. While traditional European and US car companies might see EVs as a threat, the Chinese ones see them as an opportunity to get a bigger foothold in Western markets."

The electric car is here to stay. We might slow adoption by banning Chinese imports but it will just delay the inevitable

I have seen a bit more criticism of electric cars of late in the press and on social media, particularly in the UK, but I think that's just because of more widespread use amongst the general public. They are not electric car haters but just normal people pointing out the issues they have found. This is bound to happen as more people are now using electric cars and finding out firsthand the issues with things like relatively poor infrastructure along with a few of the other weaker points of electric cars, such as poor resale value, range fluctuations based on weather and highway inefficiency etc and a few electric car evangelist types are getting upset that not everyone thinks electric cars are perfect in every scenario.