Three points to counter your view.
You keep insisting that car use has to reduced but ignore everything else that could reduce CO2 emissions. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to take seriously those who advocate severely restricting the essential mobility required for people to live their day to day lives while happily indulging in needless air flights and/or avoiding a change of diet, reducing overall consumption/consumerism, etc. Adapt or die you say but other than a change of car - where's the adaptation that counts? Taking a bus or walking occasionally does not offset CO2 emissions from flying or meat consumption.
Really, you are resorting to the narcissism of the 'they are envious'. Try adding 'because they realise that EVs as a solution will not work for everyone and fear the restricted mobility that will ensue and the detrimental impact that will have on their lives' to your list. The anti-EV stance you see may well be attributable to the group you list but there's a group of people who fit my categorisation much larger than your groups combined who haven't as yet voiced their concerns. The electric light bulb was a brilliant invention. But as useful as a chocolate tampon in a house that didn't have and could not have electricity.
To be fair, ICE cars tend not to catch fire in accidents in the real world. Fuel cut-offs and very well protected fuel tanks ensure that.
Because there is the very real possibility that there will be neither enough materials to make the bigger batteries (and don't overlook the banks of batteries required at charging stations to make fast recharging possible) or electricity supply and distribution to service them. Instead, ask why a mature technology is being jettisoned in favour of another's who's infrastructure may never be adequate when all the mature technology required to be carbon neutral was a change of where its fuel was sourced. Bear in mind continuation of said mature technology with bio fuels will never compete for electricity required elsewhere - eg, domestic, business, hospitals, internet, etc, etc.
I have no idea of their thought processes - or care. What is a concern is that ICE will soon be banished from sale soon (yes, the old ones will be unaffected - Hello Cuba!) leaving only full electrification with unavoidably bigger batteries and their recharging stations similarly dependent on bigger batteries - and neither the materials to produce them of the electricity to service them secured - and many many predictions that the latter will be a factual reality.
Great! We can turn all the carparks into hospitals. Well lit but unstaffed hospitals.
Next time I go to Italy will be driving - when I get another SL - the trip will be the holiday and plan to drive the route of the Mille Miglia .And flying you and your family to Italy for your summer holiday instead of getting the train to Cornwall.
I see the attraction as the convenience of ICE , no need to plug in to charge , with the ability to run electric if you go into a busy urban area
Just wait for Jeremy Vine to come along on his penny farthing and make an issue out of it
It wont happen because its not true......the National grid are on record as having said (several tines) that if every ICE car on the road magically turned into an EV tonight they could easily cope. Electrical generating capacity has gone up massively since the 90s....yet demand for it has gone down....add in all the renewables coming online and it wont be a problem....add the fact that electricity supplies will keep rising, probably less than 30% of UK car will be EV by 2030 and that lots of people like me will be sticking to ICE cars for ever if possible and if I can afford it.....then it becomes even more of a non issue.
I'm glad to hear that. According to this article. although there's an improvement, there are still constraints.
www.standard.co.uk
Because not everyone makes short local journeys all the time
Not directly. I'm not saying that but its a good point. People will arrive at different conclusions based on the information available to them and how they process it. Many many people will embrace EVs especially because of net zero and other policies. Many folks want to be helpful and do their bit. I know lots of folks who drive EV, are vegetarian or avoid meat regularly and make a big effort to cut their footprint by walking, cycling more etc. I equally know many people, usually well off, who are always first to put a pride , blm or Ukraine flag on their social profile who got EVs because it makes them look good. Then they're others who've done their own analysis and dont see these measures stack up to a viable solution and refuse to go along with it. All valid reasons to embrace or not to embrace.