[EvanAnderson]

That all sounds good. It just feels like it's never actually coming.

Tesla is probably coloring my perception, what with reading horror stories about parts being unavailable after minor accidents. It seems like Tesla, especially, is doing everything they can to avoid a used market. Just their "DRM" alone makes the car feel like a long-term rental versus an ownership model.

I feel good about my ICE cars' lifetime because I can get rebuilt parts and have a "good as new" vehicle (if the cost makes sense). The EV industry doesn't feel like it's going that way any time soon. Maybe some regulation would help.

re: Range/mileage of my Honda cars - I track fuel fills and mileage religiously (being a child of parents burned by the 70's gas crunch and who are borderline "hyper-milers" with their own vehicles). Both my vehicles still operate at or above their EPA rated mileages (17-20 on the Pilot and 27-31 on the 2007 Civic Si, mixed city/highway driving but heavily dependent on the type of driving). I've had excellent luck with Honda vehicles and I also try to take excellent care of them. (I'd still be driving my wife's 1995 Civic, at 350K miles on the original engine and transmission, if not for the body rusting away from 20+ years of Ohio winters. It wasn't washed regularly during / after winter in its early life and never had anti-rust treatments. Poor thing.)

[stetrain]

The market will come. The first non-Tesla dedicated EV factories are only coming online in the US this year. There are 13+ new battery factories under construction in the US for non-Tesla suppliers targeting operation by 2025.

It's not tomorrow, but the car market and chargers are going to look a lot different in 10 years. And I don't think installing a bunch of mechanically complex battery swap stations is going to work for American car preferences unless we get some really onerous regulation to standardize across brands and car models.