What's holding back electric car sales?

How do people find out about these new fangled electric cars?

I wonder if Tesla would consider a cheaper 'bare bones' Model S for the executive taxi fleet (or whatever the US equivalent is)? The Tesla S is the only BEV that could be used as a taxi due to its range, and one car would be giving numerous test drives each and every day.

The number of times customers of mine said that if taxi drivers trust a hybrid, then they must be ok. I think it gave them confidence. That and long warranties (which Tesla UK have, Toyota UK did and Nissan UK don't).

 

I wasn't saying it will plateau there forever, but lots of price drops and legitamate fear uncertainty and doubt on any new techonology. I can't see them getting above 5% (800,000) before they have been out and people have seen them working for a decade (2021). After that they may grow quickly.

We have a tail of 3 markets when it comes to hybrids. In Japan hybrids, after their requesite decade of people seeing them, quickly grew to be most of the car (not kei or truck or suv) market. In the US the price performance is not here yet for american taste. In california they are above 5% but in the nation its less than 3% this year. For the rest of the world sales are bellow 1% with not many takers.

 

Hmmm depends. Many manufacturers price them as a premium option. Even Toyota UK do that, but hybrids now account for 20% of Toyota UK sales and 25% of Yaris sales. Toyota UK are slowly gaining market share this year and sales up 8%.

 

Toyota's market share in the EU is just over 4% and sells just about all the hybrids. I doubt the UK is much more than 1% hybrid, with the rest of europe driving down the average bellow 1%. In the US we don't get good data on cars further down the line. I would like to see the hybrid market share by European country.