[MBCook]

My theory is it will work itself out in time. Once let’s say a quarter or maybe half the population is driving EVs, they’re not specialty vehicles anymore. There will be plenty of people willing to accept them so if you run into someone who absolutely doesn’t want one you’ll probably be able to compensate just fine. It will cease to be a specialty car.

It will be a little more like manual versus automatic used to be. Anyone can drive an automatic, but some people can only drive an automatic.

But if you don’t give EVs to people charged and there aren’t enough chargers around then even people who would otherwise take them (owners + the curious) will avoid them.

[ghaff]

Sure. At some point EVs become something that someone renting a car would be expected to know how to deal with. Of course, that could take a while though. And it may be unevenly distributed. The uptake of automatics has been much slower outside of the US and, within the US, I've actually had a service associate need to have a tech drive out my car because they couldn't drive a stick.