An EV9 and Ioniq6 appeared in the 'hood. The EV9 replaced a previous-gen Sequoia (the only one I ever saw), the Ioniq6 a MINI 3-door. Haven't done the math but we're way above the 20% provincial market share for EV's in our little residential cluster. The Kona EV I have this week is helping
Gotta say it feels good to be in a dead-silent full EV again. No ICE car is so linear between "go pedal" and the drivetrain. I will have to remember to use the brake pedal when I pick-up the Crosstrek next Monday...
You have less than 9 cars in your residential cluster? Between me and my neighbour we almost have that lol.I would say in the 100 or so cars living within earshot of me we have one Tesla. Three Ridgelines and two G wagons though!
This exchange illustrates perfectly why consumers need choice. Those convinced of the virtues of EVs can buy them of their own free will. Others who are not convinced should not have EVs force fed down their throat via government diktats and mandates and threats of banning ICE vehicles. The market is the most efficient allocator of capital, not Governments. The last major Government that tried central control of the economy by setting production targets led it's country into financial ruin and insolvency i.e. the USSR.
Also, as one of the links I posted earlier stated, motor vehicle CO2 emissions constitute only 11% of total CO2 emission globally, and of that 11%, only 7% is emitted by private automobiles and for hire small vehicles. The rest is commercial transport. But politicians like to zero in on this 7% because it is easy to understand and benefits them via virtue signaling wedge politics of pitting groups against each other. But trying to figure out how to reduce the CO2 emissions from giant sea going ships or industrial processes or power plants that collectively churn significantly more CO2 vs private autos is beyond their intellectual capacity and is consequently ignored.