Electric cars, IMO have a place in the mix of ground transportation choices. Like so many things in our world today, there are no clear winners and losers. We should have choices and be allowed to evaluate and pick what best serves our needs and the needs of our families. What I don't agree with, are mandates, bans, tilting of the playing field to favor one technology over another. Let the market sort out which is better on a fair, fact based, cost based, environmentally big picture, birth to grave basis. Hydrogen, hybrid, compressed natural gas, fuel cell. plug in electric and traditional gas engine cars ALL have advantages and disadvantages. They all use energy. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Looks allot like 100 years ago. 1/3 battery powered cars. 1/3 gasoline engines and 1/3 steam in 1920.
There is no doubt, Stalantis built junk is the worst of the worst. Very, very late to get into the electric game, building the cheapest garbage possible to satisfy their ownership group and show a profit. Failure was really the only option from day 1. At least Mercedes and Fiat had a long history of building cars and trucks. I would be very surprised if Stalantis is still around in it's current form in a year.
I have been involved with the service and education side of business for electric cars since GM introduced the EV 1 decades ago, so these are just my observations. We still have an EV 1 in our shop to help tie history to the current batch of EV's.
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