The reality shows that your assumptions are wrong.
Goverments that charge the highest fuel tax (according to your link) also have the highest uptake on EVs, see Norway:
and many other European countries also offer government incentives and infrastructure that promote EVs.
It seems that those with the lowest fuel tax: Australia and USA will have the lowest uptake, obviously, because petrol is 'too cheap' so why bother.
+ in the USA we have Trump and in Australia we live in the 19th century even in our Metros where EVs would be quite practical. Oh and I almost forgot, we have so little sun shine to charge then with PVs, so we must use coal power of which we CERTAINLY do not have enough either. EVs are totally useless in Australia
The EV revolution is on, just not here.
We are only a bit of fly shit in the World economy, however they are all going to come running us when they need that cobalt and nickel sulphates to 'fuel' the revolution. It wil take another 2-3 years before that will happen but also at least that time before any significant mining can be established.
Luckily there are a handful of smart explorers working on that right now and this upcoming new mining boom might just save us from the great Australian financial crisis when our realestate and banking goes bust, provided we keep a low AU$ so our mining products stay competitive.
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