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Originally Posted by RABAUKE

The province of Ontario and the city of Toronto is pushing hard for green technology and one could argue there is a huge anti automobile sentiment. The rebates to purchase EV's are huge. Toronto Hydro came out when this push was just starting and said that if 10% of the cars in Toronto were electric it would collapse the power grid.

I think that range anxiety, or more accurately time to recharge anxiety can be addressed then EV's will be more attractive, however I think that the extinction of the ICE is a long way out.

There is kind of an ironic issue with electric cars and city life. Electric cars are best suited for city use. Their tail pipe emissions are released to the environment far away from the place they are operated (so optically they are "green" and "clean"). EV's low range (100 miles currently) work well for the city since the average speed is somewhere around 20 MPH, even after 5 hours of use the range is not depleted. But the other side is most metropolitan cities have ample public mass transportation, and per-capta charging locations are low, meaning most city residents have no place to charge their vehicle near their home. So if you live and work in a city, the need to own a car is rare, and if you keep one for the weekends to get out of the city, your range is limited.

If you live in the burbs, owning an EV as your single car has range limitations with it. These are some of the reasons why electric cars have a small market share.