Maybe check back after a year or two, and see where we are. Some of us enjoy watching the budding attempts, and the setbacks, and the gradual achievements here and there that may someday lead to something big. And you are not stopping us.
Who's stopping who? Who are us? Are you on a personal mission?
The main issue for me is climate change and I would like to see the world mitigate at 10% per year. If that means using bicycles instead of cars, with all the trouble that will bring, do it. I don't fly anymore, the last time was ten years ago when I jumped out of a Cessna. I've used solar panels for thirteen years, illegaly for many years. I try in every way I can to minimize my own impact and emissions. I've rebuilt my cars and I've rebuilt my heat pumps. Not because someone tells me or pays me, because I could do it and it's the right thing to do. Period.
My wife is the one with green fingers, so that area is all hers...
Our carbon budget on this planet is more or less gone. I don't believe in God, or Elon, or colonizing Mars. I believe in what's beeing done right now, not in the future. As a former network engineer and IT manager I do know a thing or two about technology and the evolution we have seen in the computer industry. And I also think of companies like our own Framtidsfabriken (future factory) who started in 1995 and crasched heavily together with many others during the dot-com crash. What will you do if Elon fails with his mission? But even if he succeeds, Elon will not save this planet. I am very sorry if that's offending to you or others, but that is what I think.
I knew three years ago that I wouldn't be able to buy that EV you talked about then. I did think that a car like that would probably exist in 2017, but not here and not for those money. We all have different prerequisites. First image from the thread you started.
So, I still can't buy a 200 mile (320km) range EV for $ 25000 (200.000SEK) in Sweden 2018. I can get an Aixam for those money with an 80km range (second image below):
https://www.blocket.se/alvsborg/Aixam_Coupe_E_Copue___GTI___100__EL_Driven_75004496.htm?ca=13&w=3&last=1#vi-carouselThat's actually worse than a Renault Clio Electrique, they have been here since the 90s. I could have bought one of those,
if we would've had chargers in our nearby towns. Guess what, now when we are on the virge of having those longer range cheaper cars here, our municiaplities are starting to talk about building more of what? Charging stations... It's always like that here. Elon can't change people.
Adding US car sales by type from the cars thread and hoping that I will be able to buy that car mentioned above in a couple of years, maybe. I'm not sure that I want a private car at all anymore...
The last image is an old project that probably never will be realized, but it nicely shows the area needed for solar.