I think it’s more the price than anything else. Tesla is nowhere near a premium car, let alone a luxury one, but sells for luxury car prices. Of course other manufacturers wanted to jump on this train with spectacular profit margins.

For most A to B drivers a new EV is completely out of their price range. Not to mention a bunch of them live in apartments so they would effectively still have to go to a “gas” station to fill up, except now it takes 3 times as long.

Largest ev markets are CA and NY and there number of people living in SFHs is closer to 55%.

I have a phev that I regret since I had to get a minivan and now drive it exclusively on long trips so phev is basically full electric in the city now, but I have to burn gas anyway since otherwise ice components get messed up from disuse.

My (somewhat niche) reason is I need a wheelchair accessible car and I can’t find any company that modifies the only electric minivan I’m aware of to install a ramp.