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Not directly addressing the content of the article, just a bit of a rant: The problem is that in a lot of cases, EVs aren't a drop-in replacement for an ICE car. The idea of driving powered by electricity is very appealing to me, but for functionally equivalent cars (size, range, etc.) EVs do not exist at a competitive price point for my use case. Just listing a few issues below.

- I have one of the smallest car available on the market (not available anymore in fact, but w/ever) and have no need nor interest in a bigger car. The catch is that I almost exclusively use my car for long day trips on the weekend, typically ranging 3-450km (I commute by train and bike/walk for other daily errands). EVs in the same convenient compact format do not have 3-450km of range. Maybe 250km advertised range at most, which will amount to less than 200km of real-world highway kms. Frankly I will not put up with (potentially multiple) recharging breaks on what is supposed to be a quick daily excursion.

- Related to the previous point. My small car cost less than 20k new. Equivalent EVs (equivalent in usability i.e. sufficient range for my use case which as stated would actually mean a much bigger car) start at ~60k. Even with the lower running cost of an EV, that price difference will never be compensated over the lifetime of the car.

- EVs are extremely convenient if you can always recharge at home, and extremeley inconvenient if you always need to recharge at a public charging station (btw the price at public charging stations is a racket in France and Switzerland, not sure how it is elsewhere). Like many Europeans, I live in an appartment and my car is parked on the street. The possibility to recharge at home does not exist. To mitigate the inconvenience you need more range to recharge less frequently, which mean a more expensive car.