The issue with 'global south' BEVs is analogous to sub Saharan Africa 5G leapfrogging western world copper wire telephony. Africa, unencumbered by copper networks went straight to 5G+. The western world took far longer to evolve because they already had complex telephony networks in place.
BEVs have the lifespan of a laptop and are notoriously hard to repair, if you can even find anyone who know how to work on them in the western world. China and a few areas of the global south are leapfrogging the western world in BEV utilization, but the grid has to come before the vehicles, and this is a huge western world problem.
We have complex transport infrastructure and a mature gasoline service grid in place, with little incentive to 'adopt inconveniences'.
IMO the first wave of political/green BEV boosterism in the western world has failed, and it will be some time before the second wave has credible, practical reasons to change at a mass scale.
The issue with 'global south' BEVs is analogous to sub Saharan Africa 5G leapfrogging western world copper wire telephony. Africa, unencumbered by copper networks went straight to 5G+. The western world took far longer to evolve because they already had complex telephony networks in place.
BEVs have the lifespan of a laptop and are notoriously hard to repair, if you can even find anyone who know how to work on them in the western world. China and a few areas of the global south are leapfrogging the western world in BEV utilization, but the grid has to come before the vehicles, and this is a huge western world problem.
We have complex transport infrastructure and a mature gasoline service grid in place, with little incentive to 'adopt inconveniences'.
IMO the first wave of political/green BEV boosterism in the western world has failed, and it will be some time before the second wave has credible, practical reasons to change at a mass scale.