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Re:Cheerful Chatbots Don’t Necessarily Improve Customer Service by ben_w on Saturday December 31, 2022 @03:54AM (#34194783)
Back when horse drawn carriages were the most common, EVs looked better than ICEs.

We had to find the petroleum reserves before diesel and petrol could get cheap enough for ICEs to fully dominate over that era's EVs.

Re:Cheerful Chatbots Don’t Necessarily Improve Customer Service by noirbot on Saturday December 31, 2022 @11:07AM (#34197660)
Sure, but that's not really relevant to the point I'm trying to make. People moved away from animal-based travel to cars because cars had distinct improvements in usability and upkeep cost. It was ok to have the infrastructure come later because they were still an obvious improvement even without the infrastructure being in place yet.

Right now, if I want an EV, I'm paying 20% more money to buy it, it's got a shorter range than my ICE for the same size car, and the infrastructure to do things like long trips with multiple recharges isn't there yet.