[FirmwareBurner]

Yeah I'm sure small wealthy green and well developed countries like Netherlands, Switzerland or Denmark have built good EV infrastructure, but in most Europe it's not like that at all.

I live in Austria now and charging infrastructure is still very sparse in the city where people keep their cars parked and there's no signs of new chargers being built so I'm also skeptical on meeting the deadline.

Also considerig that most people have old beaters, those people won't be able to magically afford more expensive EVs with worse range.

So I think your parent is right and your situation in Benelux and the Nordics is the exception not the norm. If the infrastructure doesn't massively improve across the block and the price of EVs doesn't tank along with a range increase, there will be uproar in the less fortunate EU countries who depends on ICEs and the ICE deadline will have to be postponed again.