Based on your comments, I seriously doubt you would be able to identify an EV vehicle over a conventional internal combustion-powered one. In other words; to you a Kona gas looks just like a Kona EV, a Nissan Leaf looks like any other small car, so to you, all EV's are Tesla's Got it.
Not besides the point. Goes to your understanding of modern vehicles. If you drove, say a 1987 Chrysler New Yorker, it would explain why you think EV's are only for the rich.
Auto manufacturers would get into a lot of trouble if they were encouraging people to surf their vehicle screens. As I mentioned, iPhones, Android phones, whatever, are accessible only when it comes to playing music apps, navigation, whatever. You can't check Amazon for camping gear or new shoes. Using search engines or buying something at Amazon are things that are captured. Just because you think all screens are equal, doesn't mean they are.
Look, I live in a working class area, and -- like you -- I understand basic economics. New EVs average over $65K, far beyond the reach of the average American salary ($36K a year), especially when inflation for most necessities (like food) has been hovering around 30% over the past two-year period, since 2021. New car sales in general have dropped over the past year and a half. Some of that is due to supply chain issues and availability. But a lot of it is due to inflation. You seem to think that the average American is more loaded than they really are.
Income inequality economics aside, there is also the lack of practicability.
Most apartment complexes in major metros, where millions of Americans live, don't have AC outlets located near the tenants' parking spaces. A lot of the spaces are out in the weather, maybe uncovered, and the nearest AC outlet is inside the closest apartment or condo, maybe 80 feet or more away. People I know who live in many of the numerous apartment and condo complexes in SKC have that situation. Other apartment complexes have parking garages, with no outlets there, either. The landlords probably aren't going to dish out hundreds of thousands to have every tenant space provided with outlets, and the tenants themselves probably don't have the spare income to buy any of the $30K~ models you mentioned upthread, especially if there is no outlet handy where they live.
So right now, the people who are most apt to purchase an EV live in a high value condo complex (with individual garages), or they are individual homeowners who own houses. And they are people to whom inflation is a minor deal.
If you own a house in most major metros of the US -- where most Americans live -- you probably have assets that put you into the top 10% of Americans, easily, and your income level isn't far behind. Top 10% is rich. And even many of those homeowners today probably don't have the spare income to drop down $60K (even in payments, insurance, etc.) for a new car. Most Americans don't have $1000 spare to handle emergency car repairs.
But those homeowners who probably have the incomes to buy new vehicles are in the top 10% to top 5%, especially if the value of their assets is concerned. That means they're rich. They're definitely rich compared to the working class, who are scraping to get by, and who number probably in the hundreds of millions.
Understood on your last comment. For the sake of motoring safety, I hope it stays that way.
To bring this back to topic: By the time the infrastructure is worked out, to where the tens of millions of apartment and condo tenants and owners have easy access to AC outlets at every parking stall, and by the time that inflation drops and people have more income available -- by that time, AM radio will be further on its way out the door. It may take 15 to 20 years to get the infrastructure and economics of EV ownership available to the average American, and in 15 or 20 years AM will be a no-show, or close to it. The remaining AM stations will have to depend on streaming. Maybe enough of them will be translator only.
But people won't be tuning AM in their cars. Most aren't now.
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