Times are changing! It looks to me like electric cars will mature about the same time as self driving cars. Those of us who are slow to adopt the electric car may well never drive one. I've enjoyed driving nearly all my life and will miss it. City driving I wouldn't miss so much but driving in the country is very enjoyable.
Someone mentioned electric cars associated with socialism. I see this in Canada. Alberta, until recently a conservative province, has very few electric cars (I've never seen one myself). Ontario, socialist for decades, is big on solar energy and electric cars. An Ontario friend, an early adopter, has his home covered with electric panels which supply his home and electric car. He got a subsidized solar installation and enjoys a massively subsidized price for electricity going into the grid (20 times what power plants get) so it is a lucrative choice for him. In Alberta, people feeding power into the grid get the same price as other people buy from it at. I recently enjoyed a workshop by the solar society of Alberta concluding that it isn't really worth going solar unless you are farming and can claim the solar system as a cost of your farming business.
