Juiced: the electrical vehicle takeover

"Legacy manufactures finally noticed electrical vehicles when the Tesla Model 3 destroyed all mid- size luxury vehicle sales in its first full year of production."
This is a total lie - legacy automakers Nissan and GM beat the Model 3 to market and are far more affordable than the Model 3. The sales of the Model 3 in its first year of production were not sales at all - those sales occurred over a two and a half year period andthus cannot be presented as a single year's sales.
Notice the collapse of Model 3 sales int he past month. Legacy automakers had ben developing electric cars more thana year befre the Model 3 even went into production, How about assigning writers to these articles who know what's going on?

Quote: "Gasoline and Diesel tax could increase to further incentivize the change to electrical vehicles, at least until we have 90% adoption rate." What a ridiculous statement/concept. Forcing drivers to do someone's bidding, and not accepting the results of a free market.

China is able to move uniformly and swiftly because they don't have an established petroleum infrastructure like we do in the U.S. and Europe. The petroleum industry makes billions of dollars every year, and you can bet that they are not going to give that up without a fight. On the other hand having a big potential growth in electricity use would be a big money maker for electric companies, and solar industries. Currently, despite the success of Tesla and the addition of electric cars by some major automakers, EVs only make up 2% of new cars sold, and BEVs are less than half of that number. So from the oil companies point of view, BEVs are simply not a real threat today to their profits. Remember, regular hybrids and PHEVs still use gas (even though it is FAR less). Also take note that the two best selling vehicles in the U.S. today are Ford and Chevy trucks. But with GM, VW, and others making claims to want to produce a significant number of BEVs over the next few years, it probably has the attention of Big Oil now, if only that they may lose some small portion of their current fuel sales. I think that it will be a significant gain if we see BEVs comprising 10% of new vehicle sales. And I am guessing that number will be reached in the next 5 years. But unless there is some huge breakthrough in battery technology that makes them much cheaper, lighter, smaller, and less toxic to dispose, I do not see 50% EV market share coming any time soon. Still, I do believe in innovation. And the good news is that increased interest in EVs around the world drives competition and innovation. But I am waiting to see EV sales actually pass 10% of the new vehicle market before I start to make any bold predictions about having a dominant EV future. It is still a David (EV) and Goliath (oil) world out there today, so I wouldn't let your dreams and enthusiasm get ahead of reality until something big changes the situation.