K I completely agree with you. It's probably my bad English again.
I wanted to present exactly your argument. Politicians must finally realize that it takes time to be able to produce affordable EV cars for everyone. Not even a rich country like Germany can afford to achieve this through subsidies, and depriving a large part of the population of mobility creates major social tensions.
But the time will come and EVs will be the cheaper option.
CLPlusFour .... your English is just fine! 🙂 ... my only addition to your post was to note that, in the case of the original introduction of the car, the previous, and wholly functional, transport system was left in place until the new one grew naturally to supplant it .... whereas today political zealotry seeks to destroy the working system our whole society depends on before the new one is anywhere near able to replace it for huge swathes of society.
K
It seems there may have been little time pressure to convince populations to contemplate the possibility of accepting the advantages of the combustion engine over horse power to then end up where we find ourselves today..?
On the assumption that global warming may be a reality, combined with how many in the population of the planet might believe it to be so, then perhaps time would seem to be the critical factor agreed upon in terms of guiding the population towards a better outcome for the planet...?
Whether EV might be part of the solution towards improving life on the planet in general or not, I have no idea, and unfortunately given the nature of human beings it seems neither politicians nor scientists can seem to fully agree, thus once again it seems to come down to whoever might have the most power...and as ever their will be a mix of fundamentalists types on opposite sides creating argument, through to those who might be more inclined to discuss before arriving at that which they might hope may be a reasonable way forward...?.
As an old petrol head with Luddite tendencies, and being the custodian of both a 3.5 litre, and 3.8litre internal combustion engined vehicles in company with an EV... I suspect I may be thought to be keeping my options opened..?
