EVs, in their current state, with our current level of battery tech, aren't the answer, stay with a gas car... However, the article is poorly written. Full of conjecture and opinion. They state the battery sees a dip of 31% of capacity because of the heat when its over 100 degrees, because you cool the passenger cabin. Which is wrong, you use the energy from the battery for cooling the passenger cabin. Those systems on electric cars are horribly inefficient. They suggest you leave it plugged in at home while cooling, and park it out of the sun as the way to mitigate this concern... Well. The honest answer is mitigation, is stop being a bitch, get in the car, roll the windows down and drive with good old 260 AC. Its July, its hot all over the US right now. People bitching about the expenditure of energy on AC in electric car. Stating it lowers energy available are horribly disingenuous. It doesnt lower the energy available, it does however cause a person to use that energy for something other than driving the car... The idiots who are buying these things arent considering that basic fact. The real concern is long term reliability... Which doesnt affect the guys who live in forever car payments. That car has x KW hours of electricity stored. and will store x KW y times before the value of x decreases, and it will only store the new x for a time, then decrease again. At some point these cars become garbage as the battery pack costs as much as a new car in some cases.