Almost a decade ago I saw the price curves for EV batteries (and wind and solar power).  It was a no-brainer.  Technology advances were going to make EVs cheaper than gas cars and they would take over.

My thinking was based on a lifetime in the tech world where such shifts happen quickly and regularly.  Anyone selling old expensive stuff will quickly be put out of business.

I figure EVs have been cheaper (and less hassle) to operate for years now.  Electricity (at home) is cheap.  I spend less than $5 to “fill up” a car that would cost many times that at a gas station. Plus I don’t have to go to gas stations.  Or get oil changes.  Or radiator flushes.  Of new mufflers and exhausts. Brakes even last longer.

EVs are cheap, clean, quiet, fast and less work than old gas cars.  So what’s taking so long?  I sometimes forget the Real World isn’t the Tech World.  Things move slower, for all sorts of reasons.  But the advantages of EVs (and solar and wind power) keep compounding.  It seems a tipping point has been reached, at least in large parts of the world.  From The Guardian.

Electric cars go mainstream as adoption surges across rich and developing nations