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that's not the same thing at all. VCR's are cheap because we have new better-cheaper technology that replaced it. Green technology is not cheap and won't become cheap anytime soon. even by relativity, cars are more expensive today than they were 20 years ago.

if you could get a new green car for cheaper than it costs for a current gas powered car, the average gas powered car would have to drop in cost in order to compete. then you have to take into account rising gas prices, which would mean gas powered cars would have to be further reduced in cost just to offset rising gas prices, otherwise no one would buy them.

there are plenty of people who hang on to a single vehicle for a decade, which means slow adoption because plenty of people already have cars or just bought a new one recently. plus plenty of people buy used cars, so it'll be another several years before they start ending up in the used car market (i.e. once the people that can afford it today decide to get another vehicle). since these cars are electric and new that should also mean they will give you more lifetime miles than previous generations of cars, so people will also be hanging on to their green cars for longer.

most of the younger adult generations will be nearing old and gray before electric cars become mainstream.

then once gas isn't used in cars anymore, what will we do with all that oil? gas companies don't want electric cars around because if everyone had one, they couldn't profit from oil. it would be worthless. unless of course they just set up electric plants that run on gas, which provides electricity for your electric car, completely offsetting the point of green cars. this is the most likely scenario once electric cars become mainstream. then in the future people are going to be calling electric cars pollution machines in favor of hydrogen engines and so on and so forth.

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