Your connection with the Old World perspective serves you well and has had an influence on me.
Like any good Kentucky Red Neck my view of EV was the image of a 36 volt golf cart like our 2007 Ezgo that I bought in 2012 to use for the twins Drivers Ed training. We could do a 10 mile round trip never crossing a state highway or any community. Fast forward to 2019 when I read how a Mercedes Benz Norway distributor had a $20 million sales short fall due to Tesla Model S and X sales. The interviews of these former MB owners got my attention.
Shortly after that I saw my first
Leaf and Tesla in Murray. Not being a person that lets the herd do my thinking for me I drove to St Louis and bought a problem child.
it was a 2016 Nissan Leaf SL with a heat pump and surround Camara system since I have no head rotation. At 22K miles the range was down from 107 miles to 60 miles and the sales person said I would be due a new battery in short order. 5 weeks later on Thanksgiving weekend it triggered the battery warranty at 25K miles.
As my luck runs Nissan had stopped making the 30 kWh battery pack so they installed a new chemistry 40 kWh battery pack. Then for the $13.5K purchase price we had a new like top of the trim line with a new 150 mile range EV. Even before the battery chonked out I knew I was an EV owner for life.
Below is a 15 minute discussion how the USA is lagging Europe and especially China. 15 seconds in graph tells all there is to know.