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Because they are not idiots.
But it's not just New Yorkers. Everyone with even a small bundle of nerves is beginning to realize that electric cars are, if not a complete scam, not ready for prime time.
In NYC the practical considerations of not being able to charge your electric car make it an easy decision. Those in suburbia are not so lucky as they can charge their cars in garages and driveways; this makes it harder to understand just how stupid their purchase decision was.
Do I really need to list the idiocies involved? Outrageous repair costs of EVs? Lack of infrastructure? Refueling times measured in hours? Ever-decreasing range limitations? The horribleness of providing money to Elon to pollute our planet? Or just the direct impact of buying a vehicle containing several times more metals (the mining of which is destroying our planet), or the fact that the electricity the EV uses comes from coal-burning plants in some poor area? [1]
It is ironic that people who are EV proponents think they are saving the planet.
[1] In the US, anyway.