Great common sense article. When EVs are more affordable there will be broader adoption. I enjoyed the aside about building your first PC. Not many consumer products are like that. For quite a while you could save a bundle building your own. I too a computer teaching position at a new middle school in 1998. As part of my pitch for the job I convince the principal I could build the 35 computers for the lab and keep him well under budget. To my surprise he took me up on it. It was the dawn on desktop video editing. Affordable video cams were still analog, so you needed a analog to digital converter. So I built the thirty-five computers with the Matrox Marvel video/converter breakout box. I included a class called Movie Magic and it was a very popular elective.