If you want people to buy more EVs, then learn something from the countries where the EV transition is being successful - like Norway and the Netherlands.
First, people won't buy anything that is more uncomfortable than a quick stop at a petrol station. You *must* install charging stations on every single street. Charging spots in cities shouldn't be more than 100-200m apart. And there must be at least one of them for every 5 km of highway network. If you don't do that, then 1. people won't buy electric, and 2. those who do will try and charge their cars on home networks/chargers that were never intended to sustain such heavy, prolonged loads.
Second, we must make sure that petrol and petrol cars become obscenely expensive. Slam a 90% tax on them and don't feel sorry a single inch. Make sure that the cost of parking a car on a piece of land are equal to the costs of renting that land for living or for opening a business activities, and we aren't basically subsidizing wasted land - dedicating some municipal soil to parking some empty four-wheeled vehicles rather than a shop, a house or a park *IS* a waste of public infrastructure, and it should be taxed accordingly. And make sure that the tax for owning a polluting vehicles skyrockets to an order of magnitude of several $1000s per year.
Folks and carmakers have known about the upcoming transition for the past two decades. I'm sick of hearing excuses such as "we can't afford to get a new car". Use the fucking public transport, like I've been doing for all of my life. We need to make sure that moving in a private petrol car becomes so obscenely expensive that people just stop using them.
Moving around in a private carriage that poisons the air for everyone is an immoral luxury. Let's start treating it as such.
https://www.businessinsider.com/auto-executives-coming-clean-evs-arent-working-2023-10?international=true&r=US&IR=T
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