New tech is tricky, Bertha Benz had to refuel her car in pharmacies.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz#First_cross-coun...
I think you are trying to insinuate that electric cars are decades away from today. The first electric car was built decades _ago_. Electric cars are mainstream today. So I suppose you can argue that it is a similar timeline, we are just decades after Bertha Benz' famous drive.
> Globally, around 1-in-4 new cars sold were electric in 2023. In Norway, this share was over 90%, and in China, it was almost 40%.
Well over a century ago, in fact. For quite a while early on, they were more popular than internal combustion cars.
Unlike North America, most people in Europe live in apartment buildings not single family homes. The streets sides in my city are full of parked ICE cars like in most of Europe, but very few EVs, and even those are either company cars with chargers at the office or wealthy people from the suburbs with chargers at home. Where are the plebs without a house charger supposed to charge while at home? Via Starlink?
In my area with a lot of 4 story buildings every one of them has one.
And yes it's not just the laws it's often also old people being against it like in my case. What helped were laws.
Also, does really every single 4-story building in Munich have charring spots for every parking spot in the basement meaning every car owner has a parking spot with charging? Even the older buildings?
Plenty of capable people haven't done it yet at all.
My garage holds probably 60 cars and I'm the only electric