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[quote=Anonymous]As a senior citizen on a livable but modest income, there is no such thing as an affordable EV -- even at $46K. If you are raising a family on the median income of just over $60K, buying an EV is a pipe dream.

Also, I live in an apartment complex of 12 buildings - over 300 apartments -- so I can't even envision a method for charging the vehicles. When I look at the apartment/condo complexes in my area and the literally thousands of residents who live in them, the mind boggles with the problem of providing charging resources. Multiply that by the number of such living centers throughout the country!

Though I long ago left Michigan, my hometown of Detroit is the perfect example of a city that (a) has no effective mass transit (and is too spread out to make that even possible); (b) has many neighborhoods with only street parking and no way to erect charging stations, and (3) would require significant upgrade of the power grid. Multiply this by many similar cities in the country and you can see that a quick turn to EVs is essentially impossible.

In the years I lived in DMV (I moved just outside of it at retirement a couple of years ago), I realized most people here have little or no idea of what life is like outside of the bubble. The arrogance that crops up in these fora is astonishing and would be hysterically funny if it weren't so tragic.

It is good to have the EV goal and time will allow a transition that will not leave people behind. If you feel such a change must be done now -- immediately! -- it cannot happen no matter how much you wish it were so.

BTW, it IS an affordability problem!
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