in case u needed more evidence that electric vehicles are completely insane waste of our time on this burning earth and will never be sustainable, consider the nissan leaf, probably one of the most popular electric cars in the world before the 2020s anyways. the leaf have been in production since 2011 (also the first car i ever drove, back when i tried and failed to learned to drive as a teen) . there are, according to wikipedia, at least 165,000 vehicles in the united states. probably a little more than that since those were 2021 numbers.
they use an older charging standard called chademo. as with every electric vehicle, unless you live in a single family home where you get to plug in your car into your wall outlet, you are reliant on driving around to find an available quick charging station (not even being hyperbolic when i say that seemingly a quarter to a half of them are broken down btw at any given time. charging stations are very poorly maintained and sometimes go weeks or months in a broken-state) and sitting there for 30-60 minutes. and it is increasingly difficult to find working chademo chargers at quick charging stations. it is getting BLEAK. and chademo is getting phased out for CCS and the Tesla connector. and nissan has been explicitly clear they have no plans of manufacturing a converter for chademo to ccs/tesla.
which means 165,000 3500-LB LITHIUM-FILLED CARS are going to be made DELIBERATELY OBSOLETE by the whims of car and charging companies. almost literally like a sad old cellphone where you can't buy the charger for it anymore. nobody is going to buy a used leaf when they can't charge it anymore. it's already hard enough to get one charged. it is getting turned into a dankpods nugget lucky dip of a car because nissan is too lazy and self-interested to develop and manufacture a converter solution.
THIS is what "sustainability" is supposed to be? 165,000 cars which have to basically be thrown away in the rapidly-approaching future (or hopefully at least scrapped for materials?) because of a cable connector being wrong?
this is fucking STUPID, why is ANYONE falling for the complete scam of electric cars
