Electric vehicle hype

I’ve been on an electric vehicle kick lately. I’ve never really been a car person. I had my high school 4Runner from age 16 until 23. Then when I moved back to SF from NY, I stayed carless for the first year until my little sister gave me her high school Jetta. I’ve been driving the same car since. It gets decent gas mileage and it’s the perfect beater car for San Francisco.

Lately, I’ve been eyeing a lot of electric vehicles. Teslas have been pretty popular in San Francisco for some time now, but it’s been really cool to see the legacy carmakers actually catch up and start shipping new electric vehicles.

I randomly saw this Tweet from Sam Korus at ARK and I was also surprised to see that there were pretty much no >300 mile range EVs from the time Tesla introduced one in 2015 until 2021. I suppose I had never really thought about it - but looking back, I don’t recall many other electric vehicles besides Teslas until recently.

I’m pretty excited to see what the market looks like for EVs in the next couple of years. As much as I want to pull the trigger on something soon, I also know that the market is catching up to Tesla which is a good thing for consumers. EVs will be better and cheaper in the near future.