Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
There it goes again.

Here in Norway the type of people that switched to EVs in large numbers as one of the first groups were BMW5/Audi A6 drivers that switched to Model S cause it accelerated much faster (for the same amount of money), and was more "cool and new" tech. Later same type of people switched to Porsche Taycan. Next type was BMW3 drivers that switched to Model 3 Performance, Polestar 2 performance or lately BMW i4/ Ioniq 5 N/ EV6 GT.

Similarly, before that you would get people switching from Volvo diesel to T8 plug-in hybrid partly because of much more power.

Neither of these are "green people at bike shows."

But off course there would be much fewer switching if the EV or hybrid was much more expensive. Which is why manus wanted to promote Hybrids/EVs to people that actually are likely to spend more money on a car. "Green people at bike shows" won't.
the main reason imho was fiscal incentives (now to rethink)