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by melling 59 days ago
If they’re better, you don’t need mandates.
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If this statement was generically true, nobody would smoke, nobody would play lotteries*, we'd all eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, everyone who was able to would exercise.

And some of the issues for EVs, like availability of chargers, go away by automatic action of the market when there's a good reason (e.g. government mandate for more EVs) to expect more demand for EVs.

* except on the occasions where the rollover boosted the expected value above the ticket price, but this would never happen if nobody ever played lotteries.

Sad to say, the best does not always win. There are countless examples in technology, products, politics, etc etc.
Fortunately EVs are also cheaper. Unfortunately, the US has a 100% tariff on the less expensive Chinese EVs and batteries.

Better and cheaper does win.

EVs became cheaper because of a variety of mandates from Governments in California and China, amongst other places.