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Bizzarely enough I think EV sales have peaked for a few years. They just arent what they were promised to be. Too expensive, range is not big enough and piblic charging in Europe is the same price as petrol/diesel.
I am completely not surprised. I have had an EV for just over 8 years now. It has only done just over 40 k miles, yet the battery range and capacity has degraded by 42%. Not withstanding this, logistically it has been an absolute nightmare on a longer run. People in general are fully aware now of shortcomings of EV's and they do not want to invest in a vehicle that it's value will drop like a brick either. EV's will never replace ice vehicles because the bottom line is that they are functionally not as good and all lithium ion batteries degrade to a greater or lesser degree, whereas ice vehicles don't apart from wear related aging, not just sat there in the garage . I also have another two cars. A 20 year old Mazda MX5 and a 16 year old Mercedes E Class diesel. Both cars still work wonderfully well and both cars have the range that they were originally purchased with. The Mercedes being 650 miles brimmed at highway speeds. No EV can touch that. EV's are just not as good and are just not fit for purpose and people just won't buy them now. Your assumption about electric cars lasting for 10 years with little use doesn't match my experience. Lithium ion batteries degrade with use but they also degrade with time ( much different to ice cars ). After 10 years the battery capacity, like mine, would have degraded quite severely, just sat in the garage, in my experience. Things will only get worse on the bad publicity front for EV's, as this glut of recently bought EV's, ages and the batteries degrade, just like mine has.