Pictured: Wuling Binguo EV, one of the EV car I most often see in Jakarta and Surabaya, Indonesia. I also am beginning to see BYD EV cars in Jakarta too

By Andra Febrian - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=145229895

As an Indonesian, I am kinda surprised to see at least like one or two EV each day in Jakarta and Surabaya, especially when EVs here are still considered expensive cars.

I am also surprised seeing more EVs than hybrid cars here

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    Considering I can’t look at one and tell in most cases, probably a lot more than I think. I know one person in the apartment complex Iive in has an EV because I see how at night they have it plugged in and I know the instructor for the college club I’m in has an EV that I’ve been in a few times, but otherwise it would have to be something distinct enough looking like a tes|a or cybercrime against design… I mean cybertruck in order for me to notice. So definitely an increase from a few years ago when I didn’t live near anyone with one nor had ever really been in one.

    US and in a fairly big city, if that matters.

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    City public busses were/are(?) going electric, starting maybe a couple years ago I think. Don’t know how many have switched, but pretty sure I might have been on one and they’re really not too different from their non-electric counterparts in mind from a rider perspective.