Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly
I think that electric car adoption is going to have similar characteristics to digital cameras. I remember playing with an early digital camera and seeing a poor replacement for film, but with obvious benefits. Back then  it was common to hear &quot;serious&quot; photographers pooh-poohing digital, and how it&#x27;s many drawbacks would mean it would remain niche, and never replace film. It didn&#x27;t take long and digial cameras improved enough for it to be good enough for happy-snaps. The serious photographers then moved the goalposts to &quot;proper photographers&quot; won&#x27;t use them because of reason X. From that point the transition was very rapid.<p>I see the same arguments being made about electric cars. &quot;The batteries are no good in really cold climates&quot;, &quot;They&#x27;ll not a good replacement as I cannot drive 1000 km in one stetch&quot;, &quot;I live in an apartment, I can&#x27;t charge one, on the street&quot;.<p>There are so many obvious benefits of electric cars, as soon as they are close to cost competitive, I bet the transition for new car sales will happen much quicker than many people realize and the infrastructure will quickly follow once the market has spoken.