Unless someone comes up with some new miracle battery, electric cars are never going to make any sense. They can't handle cold weather, and they can't stand hard work.
Gasoline engines generate large amounts of heat. That heat is mostly waste heat, but it can be used to heat the cabin of the car in winter. Electric cars do not generate waste heat, so heating the cab draws power from the batteries, running them down. In really cold weather, you need a lot of heat for the inside of a car.
Electric cars don't like to tow anything heavy. And they don't like wind resistence. Both suck power from the batteries at a rapid rate. An electric car that might go 200 miles if it isn't towing anything will only go 80 miles if it is pulling a trailer. Also, the faster a car goes, the more wind resistence. A car that will go 200 miles at 60 MPH may only go 120 miles at 75 MPH.
It all comes down to power. The batteries in electric cars just don't hold enough of it to allow them to compete with gasoline powered cars. And we're not even considering here how long it takes to recharge a car's batteries. We're talking 30 minutes for a partial charge that might give you 80 miles of range. Electric car makers always over-report their cars' range. Always.
You're missing the forest for the trees here.
The bigger problem is the battery tech will catch up.
And eventually it'll either be mandated or so many regulations, taxes, fuel fees, and policies will be passed, that the culture itself will move away from gas and diesel powered vehicles.
Like owning machine guns, only the really well-off, the ones with no incentive to fight, will own and use them.
and because of this trend, the next step, implemented in tandem, will be the full ability to remotely monitor all aspects of travel. The state or its affiliates in wallstreet, owned through blackrock moneyprinting, will control travel, be able to shut it off for any reason, or restrict and limit its range, time of use, and access based on any factor (including social credit), at any time.
Good luck mustering a militia when 90% of your guys can't afford, in practice, the $25k in operator costs and fees, yearly, to own a diesel or gas vehicle.
Current battery don't love heat to. In hot climate you must cool batteries. However, electric cars is not bad idea per se, but THEY push these shit although technology are not ready to carry all real world demands. Add to this that electric cars are all but no ecology friendly. Batteries have very limited life time. Manufacturing is one of most envirnoment harmful process. Also recycling is limited, also very harmful for envirnoment .... and most manufacturer ( including shitty Tesla ), don't allow owners to change only cells which are die... no, no, you must buy complete battery pack and waste pack which have sometime only one dead cell.
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