Which brand do you own and drive?
I don't, but then again I'm the advocating for taking the overall data.
Two things -
It is entirely reasonable and logical to trust the "ancedotes" - aka real-life experiences - of people you actually KNOW - versus piles of data and reports. Even if it is just ONE person you know.
Second - years ago, I was going into some possibly risky surgery. I asked my surgeon how many of these he had done. "Over 3000". And how many patients have you lost during this surgery? "ZERO". Good enough for me - but had he said a number greater than ONE - I might have gone home. People don't want to know that their plane isn't going to crash 90% of the time. They want 100.
I've mentioned here and elsewhere - make the car SO COMPELLING TO HAVE, I will actually DUMP my car and shell out the bucks for it. That is what people DO, when it is that good. The modern bicycle - as opposed to the giant penny-farthing types - when they hit the street, there were tens of thousands of them within a few YEARS. When the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, their ideas powered a revolution such that they were flying over the English Channel just six years later. Four years after that, they were dogfighting over Europe.
People joke about resisting new technology, but when its adoption is compelling and affordable, people FLOCK to it.
I know the anecdotes are true. But I also know that people can be idiots and things are hard for them. Take Intex above ground pools. Lots of people know people who have had disastrous experiences with them. Are they bad pools? Nope, been using them for 20 years now and every time there's been an issue, its been on me. So anecdotal information has its places, but you have to know whos telling the anecdote to know how much weight to give it. If my best friend in the whole worlds tell me a piece of tech is for crap, I need to look at it myself. I'd help the guy bury a body, but he's a self admitted caveman.
Or if your peoples real life experience is with a lesser quality product, say a $100 camera drone, would you say that DJI Mavic products are crap? If they buy a burner no name phone from a drugstore and tell you smart phones are crap, would you say Iphones and Galaxy phones are horrible products?
On to your second point. Maybe I'm weird, I know nothing in this world is 100%. And I've spent a lifetime doing things others consider dangerous. Aircrew in Navy aircraft, loading weapons onto those aircraft, riding motorcycles, driving fast cars. When my spinal surgery was inevitable, I was regaled with stories about fusions that didn't work. Implored to find another way. I trusted my surgeon to present the risks to me squarely. Of course, his numbers matched with the research papers I had read.
The EV tech is approaching the flocking point, but it wont be there for a while. The interdependence of materials, tech advances, infrastructure all will pull and tug until we hit that point. Its truly not a valid solution for every use case, lots of niches out there. and still large blocks like city dwellers without easy access to charging. For some people, the compelling case is there, it all depends on the value you place on various parts of the ownership equation.
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