YMMV indeed. The issue here is that in many places in the U.S. - including the 4th largest city where I live - 85 miles can be driven running errands, going to eat, etc. And many of us occasionally drive a car to a location 4 hours or so away. Having to stop to recharge for 30 minutes on a 3.5-4 hour drive is a non-starter, pun NOT intended.
EV's are toys, and if that works for you, fine. I still like the throaty roar of the exhaust, although some EV's may have better 0-60 times!
And like you, I didn't read all the pages before this one, but surely there have been plenty of comments pointing out that EV's - and the alternative energy infrastructure - is far from "clean", including particulate pollutions from the tires, and the very dirty (and local environmental and labor issues) extraction of those materials in countries not subject to our EPA or other regulatory edicts. The hypocrisy, bad science and economics being used to justify a forced energy transition is and will harm our lives and the planet in ways we don't even see yet. At least we know how to manage the use of hydrocarbons and their extraction.
Some good (and fun) comments early on here about future energy, and we are all sure those inventions and solutions will come to pass, but I just don't see Blade Runner anytime soon, or I Robot. In the meantime, let's let the market work and not have our government try and - as usual, very badly, regardless of political party - pick winners and losers. All that does is cost us way more money than it should and spread the wealth around to interested parties instead of successful solutions. Technological change often happens very quickly with unforeseen advances; forcing it results instead in waste and failure.
