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Right, there is an enormous amount of illogical and very counter-productive thinking going on around EVs. I read massive amounts of research literatuer on the matter, including sociologists reports of user behaviour. A very strong insight emerging from user surveys is that a large proportion of EV owners have a feeling of superiority over ICEV owners; also, in terms of usage patterns, many EV owners report feeling much more comfortable about driving their car into town to fetch "things that they forgot to buy" for example... thereby using their EV much more for these "into-and-out-of-town" journeys than their ICEV. Energy use concerns seemed to have disappeared, and the "towns are for people, not for car" concept with it...
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