Comment by SoftTalker

> No one is going to pay extra for fewer features.

Right, what people want is to pay less for fewer features.

If EVs with all their limitations are going to replace ICE cars for daily use, they need to be cheap. We need the Ford Focus or Toyota Tercel of EVs, with the same set of features (i.e. very few) that those cars had when they were introduced.

Otherwise I'll just go buy a used ICE Tercel or Focus.

When Tesla showed the world that an EV didn't have to look like a middle school science project and drive like a golf cart, it made sense that they went upmarket. They had to recover development costs. That won't work to get mass conversion.