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The fact is when those people do want vehicles they mostly likely choose a new urbanism community that doenst require a car, those that can afford cars will purchase plug in EV's"
--Why would they do that when they can buy an old beater for a thousand bucks and gas is $1.50 a gallon? People will buy whatever is economical for them to buy. As a side note, how many EVs can our current infrastructure support? Every summer the grid here in the US groans and strains under the weight of the existing electric loads. How is this currently practicable to any meaningful degree? I am not even in the third world,I am an American who runs a small business that often involves driving and/or hauling w/ my car. There is no EV even remotely on the horizon that would suit my needs. If I were to buy a new card I would buy a Fit.
"The fact is when those people do want vehicles they mostly likely choose a new urbanism community that doenst require a car"
--yeah assuming they are Yuppies!
Yes people always and for all times buy according to only one factor--price--and always with full information and pure rationality---not.
Just because this is the world depicted in your ideological propaganda...er...intro economics textbook doesn't mean that it has any glimmering relationship to most people's reality.
The explosive growth in organic produce, farmers markets, hybrids...are not primarily driven by price-only thinking by any stretch of the imagination.
EV's have been discussed at length elsewhere, but just for your information and for those who haven't caught those earlier conversations--a significant portion of the current car fleet could be replaced by electric vehicles without the need to build one more power plant. The two main reasons are: 1) They are charged mostly at night when there is large excess capacity, and 2) They are some five times more efficient than even the optimistic efficiency ratings of hybrids, which are some five times more efficient than the average SUV.
And this without any improvement in the grid or supplying available "smart technologies" that charge when energy is available and can draw down a bit of energy from the batteries if the grid needs it. With these simple developments, a large fleet of EVs could greatly stabilize the grid and allow much higher use of intermittent renewable generations such as wind and solar.
Because there may not be an EV on the market right now that fits your particular needs does not mean that millions of people couldn't either get by without a car or use an EV for almost all of their motoring needs. It's not all about you.