Writing for RealClearPolitics, David Harsanyi looks at EV market acceptance, pronounces it a niche product, and concludes as follows.
The Department of Energy doesn't lend money to Solyndra or Rivian because these companies have the best people, the best ideas or the best chance of creating self-sustaining jobs. They lend it to companies because state central planners like the idea of solar and EVs to combat an imaginary climate emergency.
Now, if people want to buy electric cars, of course they should be able to. I know people who love them -- the quiet engine, the quick acceleration, the way they look. One assumes there would be a profitable niche market for EVs if the industry significantly scaled back production.
Let's find out. Because taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing their rides.
Indeed. As we’ve written before, there is a a niche for vehicles that combine the best features of a golf cart and an automobile, That niche is as a local vehicle for households (a) with their own at-home charger which also have (b) an ICE powered car capable of conveniently accomplishing non-local trips.
The snowbird DrsC are such a household, we could install chargers at both homes if our local vehicles - 2 older SUVs - weren’t also ICE powered.
