EV sales are tailing off long before most California drivers have bought one. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Automotive News reports that “EV sales start to fall in California, an industry bellwhether.” Then comes the good part – assuming you’re as weary of the force-feeding of EVs as you probably were of the force-feeding of drugs to people who didn’t want to take them, either:
“Following a long, seemingly inexorable climb, registrations of battery-electric vehicles in California fell in the fourth quarter of last year. EV sales have now fallen for two consecutive quarters in the state, even as California regulators set a 2035 deadline for all new auto registrations to consist of zero-emission vehicles.”
This is happening in California – the state where the most EVs have been sold. Italics to emphasize the past tense. It is the state most favorable to EVs, politically as well as practically and financially. The climate is generally temperate – neither particularly hot nor cold. Optimal conditions for an EV in that such conditions don’t have the same effect on an EV that extremes of heat and cold do. And much of the driving in California is stop-and-go, also ideal for an EV as they go farther when they don’t have to go very fast for very long.
Still laughing at the diesel generator powered charging station.
Only in the land of Spicoli.
The best roadtrip ever was as a lil’ Shaver out there in a Winnebago with Pappy and various wenches driving down HWY 1 and Orange County but a return trip is a big negative.