A thought that keeps popping into my head is "where does the buck stop?"
In other words, the early adopters can say "we are just early adopters still using the old fuel but we start to set an example for the next generation to take over." Or do we decide that the time has come to fully embrace the EV and start to make huge sacrifices on anything else that burns fuel?
I have seriously mixed feelings when the ones creating or hyping the product aren't doing everything possible to set the full example. Well, Tesla themselves seem to have "ratcheted way back" from the "sales by guilt" angle... I guess it is probably true that sales volumes could be bigger if they sell purely based on attractive metrics such as costs per mile for energy, and reduced maintenance without resorting to the "you must buy this to be good" angle that would turn many away.
One great thing about the Internet is that it can replace much air travel for many. Particularly for things like new product information announcements. For instance, say hypothetically, I wanted to go to the Frankfurt auto show and see what is there. Well these days I can look on the Internet and see photos and videos of everything going on there, and don't feel like I missed out by not going there in person.
If a UK based reporter flys to the USA to cover a USA product unveiling and that keeps multiple other Europeans from "bothering" to make the trip themselves, then great... Pollution reduction. But if EV products are attracting so much mainstream press that every publication wants to get on board, and there are huge amounts of reporters flying in, maybe not so good. Maybe Nikki can let us know how many international reporters ended up flying out to see it? Also, will that result in many unique stories, or a bunch of redundant repeats of the same info?
