[ehnto]

I think you have pointed to the problem, a lot of people likely bought an EV without thinking it fully through. Being generous, you could also imagine life situations changing in a way unfavourable to the practicality of the EV. Rental runs out and your new place doesn't have off-street parking, maybe you lose your job that had charging available etc.

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Or they bought one with poor range or no good fast charging network and didn’t realize they have options now.

There’s a lot of ignorance out there!

Other things are changing too. Employers are realizing that providing charging is table stakes. More chargers are being built out.

In some places landlords are now legally required to approve a tenant’s written request for permission to install charging equipment.

Yes you still have to choose your new rental wisely, but if you have fast chargers as a backup it’s hardly a crisis if there’s a gap.

One also can think fully through whether burning gasoline is sustainable…

[ehnto]

> One also can think fully through whether burning gasoline is sustainable…

Just for fun because I have actually thought about it, this is my deprecation plan for my ICE vehicles:

A 90s Nissan Skyline is my daily driver but also a track-day car. When it comes time to deprecate it, it will become a full time track car. I have converted it to run on Ethanol blends, which are already a niche race fuel and so are unlikely to go away unlike Unleaded petroleum and the hassle of getting it won't be a big deal as race tracks already have it on site often.

My other ICE vehicle is a travel van, and it runs on a small turbo diesel. By the time I need to deprecate it, it may be that an EV van that is travel capable is available but if not, biodiesel until an EV conversion makes sense.

I don't drive very often, so a pragmatic small range EV would be just fine, but I could even forgo a daily entirely in favour of my bike and public transport.

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I was referring more to thinking through the climate effects, and changing to EV, which even with the long tailpipe are still way better than ICE. But it's fair to say there must be a transition plan.

EV vans designed by a current-century auto company would be nice! That's a top item for what I wish Tesla would work on next.