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Here's What it Will Take for EVs to Take Over the Car Market (caranddriver.com)
Here's What it Will Take for EVs to Take Over the Car Market (caranddriver.com)

• A new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF) estimates that, even with no new economic or policy initiatives put forth by global governments, EVs and other zero-emissions vehicles will account for 70 percent of new-vehicle sales by 2040, up from 4 percent in 2020.
• But to meet the goal of having net-zero emissions by 2050, a goal stated in the current policies of countries including Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, BNEF estimates there will need to be policy measures to encourage further adoption of EV and other zero-emissions vehicles, especially in the heavy-duty truck fleet.

Here's Every New Electric Vehicle Model for Sale in the U.S. (caranddriver.com)
Here's Every New Electric Vehicle Model for Sale in the U.S. (caranddriver.com)

EV startup Canoo's first vehicle is a compact minivan priced from $34,750 (motorauthority.com)
EV startup Canoo's first vehicle is a compact minivan priced from $34,750 (motorauthority.com)

A bit of vaporware at this point, perhaps, but an interesting concept especially for shuttles from the airport.  No tech details.

What already sucks about that is without the logos, you couldn't tell the 2 apart based on looks.  

In an age where you can get an AWD SUV/hatchback with great ground clearance and gas mileage, I'm not sure why you'd want anything else.  Maybe a Vette or a F250 for hauling, but that's about it. 

I think for most/all of us, the equation doesn't yet work, it might in the future.  I could get by with an EV now, our three year old car has 18,000 miles on it.  If we drove somewhere at a distance, we could rent something else.

But the money isn't there.

Maybe in five years, a car or truck will be close, or even better.  The Ford truck seems pretty close to me.  A lot of work trucks don't go far in a day.  But a lot of folks needing trucks buy used, or keep them forever, which is why used trucks are so expensive.  A plumber may need a truck, but not a new $50 K truck.

Delivery services may get into EV vans soon, in part so they can have flashy commercials about how green they are.  The new Post Office van has an ICE, not an EV.  Stop and go things could use a hydrid one would think.

For folks here who buy midsized or smaller SUVs, which are quite popular, the EV is years off making sense I think.

About one-week ago I already saw, in my rural Iowa county seat town, a Ford F-150 Lightning. Once a few farmers around here buy one, my opinion is that word will spread rapidly about the advantages of having one for performance on short distant travels, and they will multiply like rabbits, despite our area being very conservative politically. Commodity prices are high, and farmers are looking for a place to spend their money on high dollar tax deductible, high performance, equipment.

Farmers like big toys, and their wives are well aware of their proclivity, and support the tax deductible nature of it.