The auto industry mainly churns out more expensive, fully loaded electric cars of the SUV type. In order to make them affordable to the consumer, the industry counts on governments shelling out EV subsidies. Who’s benefitting primarily? Chinese automakers that don’t have an ICE car background to begin with. No more excuses, European (and American) car brands need to make the transition to electric cars full-heartedly. Promising is that VW is reportedly working on a sub 25,000 euro EV. Which is good. Smaller cars that weigh less, can do with a smaller battery to score a decent range, still an EV’s most costly component. Let’s extrapolate what we already knew about toy cars: the bigger the toy, the more batteries it costs. Below: smaller (sleeker) cars are also more suited to deploy autonomously…