That is a shame. Why restrict advances in technology because you favor one method of propulsion over another? As we have seen with the recent grid failure in Texas, it is wise to diversify your sources of energy.
Assuming you do not have access to solar power, a generator or an above ground fuel storage tank with fresh fuel, you will be at the mercy of fat cats to maintain a reliable energy grid that is not OVER TAXED by millions of new fully electric homes and cars coming online like we are starting to see in Texas
Everyone and their sister is moving to Texas and bringing their energy demands with them. Thankfully this state will likely be the last state to ever mandate fully electric vehicle usage, but if NY and CA require them its likely big automakers will simply make more of those over PHEVs or gasoline hybrids.
Misguided over attempts to supposedly help the environment will drive us to a realization one day that privately owned vehicles can no longer be legal and everyone will be forced to walk or take mass transit. This obviously will not work in the suburban sprawl of Texas.
I used mass transit on a daily basis when I was very young and its a grueling nightmare if you are not in the mood for it. Nothing but a hassle.
Euros fucked themselves using diesel and are now wholesale aiming to "clean the air" of their old and narrow-roaded cities of all local emissions whatsoever....
Ban or no ban, they tax gas so much it might as well be one....that's how diesel won out there in the first place.
They'll still be Russia's energy bitch, but maybe not under the sway of the middle East as much.
However, Mr. Felis Catus, I would say suburban sprawl Texas is more than ready for EVs, far more than some cramped city like NY or a CA city like San Fran.
EVs are seamlessly perfect for suburbia(both ruralish and cramped) and sprawled areas. SFHs and townhouses with garage fit them like a perfect glove; plug and play like a big phone. 120v power is the most economical source of juice, requiring no expeditures(sure, 240v can be added but it is a luxury). Got too far into the "city" with highrises, cramped street paking, etc, and sudden the EVs becomes a tad more inconvenient and expensive to power. There also needs to be loads and loads of copper laid down in a NYC; roads torn up, asphalt paved. Not so with suburbia.
Many NYers don't even have cars, their city is so packed and able to sustain a subway system that way. But those economic circumstances and environment doesn't exist everywhere since not every place is going to have a Wall Street and and a big bunch of millionaires.
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