Muggles, in Harry Potter books, are non-magic people, who do not have magic, do not understand it, have a lot of misconceptions about it, and fear it. :-)
So you are the enlightened one because you drive an EV or what? I dont think that this divisive and patronizing attitude is helpful in this discussion.
Range anxiety is a fact, only recently electric vehicles have started to have more acceptable and practicable ranges and also, the charger network is evolving more and more. In winter the ranges are also reduced by about 10-20%.
So I dont think people cant see the "magic", the mass market is just risk averse and doesnt want to get stuck in the middle of the highway with 2 screaming kids in the back seat.
Also now that most European countries (and also the US) have stopped subsidizing EVs, the real costs are shining through, so maybe that 1.9L Diesel engine looks more attractive now again.
> so maybe that 1.9L Diesel engine looks more attractive now again
Sure, if you don't care about leaving a planet for your kids to live on.
But this discussion got derailed, I should not have used the muggle joke. I didn't mean to be condescending, but rather highlight how little people that don't drive EVs know about driving EVs and how they repeat the PR talking points that are being fed to us by the biggest money-making industry ever created in the history of mankind (the fossil fuel industry). Hence the mass market repeating things about "getting stuck in the middle of the highway with 2 screaming kids in the back seat" which somehow doesn't happen to people driving EVs.
