Of course, the lower income people living in apartments who can afford the min. ~$60,000 EV will of course then spend even more at charging stations. Poor people should try not being poor, right?

I sometimes wonder if this whole EV thing will be known as the “let them eat cake” type of moment, capturing a sentiment of ruling strata detached from reality on the ground until their heads end up rolling around on it.

“Just buy a $60,000 EV”, tells the HN technocrat to someone who delivers them food to their $1M+ home, working for a delivery service that digs them deeper into a financial hole as millions more low wage foreign laborers stream into the country and inflation eats away at any progress that the HN technocrat has only benefited from.