I can’t imagine that an EV works as well for someone in rural Saskatchewan with a 45 minute drive to the grocery store as well as it does for someone living in Toronto, Montreal. Mechanics who look askance at “the Asian cars” still are out there. Heck it might be a challenge just getting it to the community from an urban center.
I love my EV, and recognize it doesn’t work for everyone just yet (sometimes because of bad reasons that society accepts like “suburbia”).
My EV gets about 200km range in winter (my use case is up to 30 min trips primarily); 80km in 45 min, x2, is not far from the equivalent of 1/4 tank of “gas” in reserve, except there’s no Jerry can for an EV.
Then, convince someone who isn’t fully convinced of the superiority of fuel injection to go out in that. It’s always the “what if” fear of the unknown scenarios, and politics plays a role.
The article goes a bit more in-depth than that. For example they show in my home region of metro Vancouver, the wealthy suburbs tend to have much higher rates of EV registrations than the core cities of Vancouver/burnaby/tricities/richmond/surrey or the less-wealthy suburban areas.
This data implies to me that beyond just infrastructure and travel requirements, cost is a major factor, perhaps overwhelmingly so. This too wouldn’t be groundbreaking news but it’s a different narrative to your conclusions here.
Cost is a factor, but consider that if you live in the urban core, at least in some cities, it’s possible to simply not have a car. Vancouver from my recollection has pretty good transit and is fairly walkable in comparison to eg Houston.
Am I missing something? The only time the article mentions cost is in trying to explain why fewer women drive EVs. They say the reason its popular is that suburbs can home-charge whereas urban areas don’t have charging infrastructure for most residents.
Not that I think you’re wrong, but its not what the article says.
Speaks more to what I’m seeing in Halifax, too. We’ve been flooded with Teslas in the last couple of years, and it’s not beat up Civics they’re replacing.
Let me guess: Ontario, Québec, BC? The provinces with the most urban and suburban areas.
Edit: Yep, exactly as predicted for the obviois reasons. Not exactly news.
I can’t imagine that an EV works as well for someone in rural Saskatchewan with a 45 minute drive to the grocery store as well as it does for someone living in Toronto, Montreal. Mechanics who look askance at “the Asian cars” still are out there. Heck it might be a challenge just getting it to the community from an urban center.
I love my EV, and recognize it doesn’t work for everyone just yet (sometimes because of bad reasons that society accepts like “suburbia”).
Honestly 45 minutes is well within the range of most EVs. I would guess temperature and politics are more influential in the those areas.
My EV gets about 200km range in winter (my use case is up to 30 min trips primarily); 80km in 45 min, x2, is not far from the equivalent of 1/4 tank of “gas” in reserve, except there’s no Jerry can for an EV.
Then, convince someone who isn’t fully convinced of the superiority of fuel injection to go out in that. It’s always the “what if” fear of the unknown scenarios, and politics plays a role.
The article goes a bit more in-depth than that. For example they show in my home region of metro Vancouver, the wealthy suburbs tend to have much higher rates of EV registrations than the core cities of Vancouver/burnaby/tricities/richmond/surrey or the less-wealthy suburban areas.
This data implies to me that beyond just infrastructure and travel requirements, cost is a major factor, perhaps overwhelmingly so. This too wouldn’t be groundbreaking news but it’s a different narrative to your conclusions here.
Cost is a factor, but consider that if you live in the urban core, at least in some cities, it’s possible to simply not have a car. Vancouver from my recollection has pretty good transit and is fairly walkable in comparison to eg Houston.
Which comes back to cost doesn’t it.
Am I missing something? The only time the article mentions cost is in trying to explain why fewer women drive EVs. They say the reason its popular is that suburbs can home-charge whereas urban areas don’t have charging infrastructure for most residents.
Not that I think you’re wrong, but its not what the article says.
Speaks more to what I’m seeing in Halifax, too. We’ve been flooded with Teslas in the last couple of years, and it’s not beat up Civics they’re replacing.