Study funded primarily by FF friendly Koch brothers, but reality is true that hidden costs and logistical difficulties are major obstacles to further expansion of EV replacement of ICE transportation in the J6P market.

Mentioned in this article is something we don't often discuss, which is that most of the early adopters of EVs were people who had a GARAGE attached to their PRIVATE McMansion, allowing said owner to easily and conveniently plug in and recharge his wheels nightly after returning from work to swill beer in the backyard bbqing or watching the NFL on Fox on his 60" OLED TV with Dolby surround sound.

Sadly, even many of the fairly rich people who own their own Brownstone in Brooklyn Heights don't have a garage, and they park their cars on the alternate side of the street system forcing them to move spots every day for street sweeping.  This actually created a whole job class of people who move the cars across the street to double park for 4 hours until the sweeper goes through, then move them back.  Many people who own a car don't have their own garage to plug it in every night, and running an extension cord out the window to your car is pretty impractical.

Then you have Homeless people who live in their cars, obviously they have nowwhere to plug it in except a charging station, or if they can find somebody who has an outdoor outlet and they have a long enough extension cord maybe they can pirate the electricity.  Or pirate off of street lamps.  I wonder how many EV owners do that ??? ???

So anyhow, to own an EV in practical terms, not only do you need to be able to afford the already higher cost of the vehicle, but the even higher cost of housing space big enough to house not just you but your vehicle also.  Minimum would be a Carport in an apartment complex with an AC outlet on your account meter circuit.  I had such an arrangement at my old place prior to losing my leg.  This construction is reasonably common in AK so you can plug in a block heater, but not in the lower 48.  Even here, I would say fewer than 20% of apt complexes wire their carports right now.

So, inevitably, once the small-ish market of people who live the full Amerikan Dream of a McMansion with a white picket fence and a 2 car garage was saturated, the larger market of car owners who live in more compact housing arrangements has been slow to follow EV adoption, leading to lower than hoped for demand, lower profits and less investment.

Question is, how low can Elon cut his profit margin on the Teslas before the yield on his corporate paper skyrocket?  A few percentage points, and all those Billions in debt becomes a problem.

https://www.thestreet.com/electric-vehicles/electric-vehicle-tesla-adoption-curve-cost

Study determines the astronomical true cost of electric vehicle ownership

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