The case for significantly scaling up electric vehicle volumes is dependent on Uber and autonomous vehicles, not the consumer. There is nothing more centralized and anticompetition than Uber. Displacing 8-10 MM bpd of oil demand with renewables in order to power autonomous electric vehicles comes with enormous technical as well as economic hurdles. It may happen, but not likely in the way futurists are predicting it will, or on any foreseeable timeline and the iphone comparison is just silly. That device faced nearly zero regulatory hurdles, autonomous vehicles face years of exposure to the political process to have access to public roads.