Also larger vehicles, would have a higher cost per mile. Your comparing the cost per mile of a small vehicle to that of all vehicles. Not that the incremental cost per mile wouldn't be lower if you do an "apples to apples" comparison, just not as much lower.
OK, just much lower. Is that bad?
Also while purchasers of larger vehicles can and often do care about fuel economy (or costs for the charge needed per mile) as well (esp. with today's higher prices), it tends not to be their primary concern (or they would have tended to get a smaller vehicle, so they are somewhat less focused on the specific area where electric cars have their biggest advantage.
As we agreed, conditions change. Most of the people who bought SUVs and other inefficient vehicles bought them when gas prices were much lower, and awareness was much lower.
In other words while this market segment can be replaced with electric cars or some other alternative eventually, its unlikely to be a big area for first adopters. Until and unless electric cars have taken over most of the market, this segment is likely to account for a smaller, perhaps much smaller, portion of the electric cars on the road.
Look at hybrids. It took awhile before you started to see hybrid SUVs, performance cars etc., and they are still a much smaller part of the total market.
Are you living in a cave? Gasoline prices have spiked in the last 6 months, and you are using data from a few years ago. Look at sales of SUVs, look at sales of gasoline efficient cars. If you are at all perceptive you have to recoginze a change in behaviour.
And with hybrids the shift is easier. Range and recharge/refuel and similar issues range from non-existent, to insignificant. That isn't the case with full electrics.
And you are ignoring all the other benefits I mentoned.
Listen, I've been in sales/marketing for my entire long life. You can dismiss an unreleased product as a failure if you want... but frankly you are just making an uneducated guess, as I am.
But from my experience I think electric vehicles will be very successful, especially if they get government subsidies as they should.
We all agree we need to get off imported oil as much as possible, wouldn't a significant move to electric vehicles be a great move in that direction? |
