I would love an electric car that had the range and performance and capital cost of what I have now, but it doesn't exist.
If it did I would have bought it already.
Oddly enough, the reason I bought what I did, was to meet my personal requirements for transport. Not to save the planet, or virtue signal my Greenness (and wet-behind-the-ears-ness)
Its all very well to say 'hire a fuel car for a long trip' but that's a hassle. And as one gets older, increasingly difficult.
The fact remains that whilst many of the ducks are in the row for electric, not all are, and not all look like they ever *can* be, let alone *will* be.
As with nuclear fusion, in principle its simple. Just create a small sun in a bottle. Just develop a cheap lightweight high capacity electrical energy store out of common materials.
If we had been able to do that - and batteries preceded internal combustion engines - we would never have developed those IC engines in the first place.
Everything about electric cars is right - except for the batteries. Too expensive, too heavy, too material intensive, and made out of scarce materials at that.
What we need is 'cold fission' so we can stick a lump of plutonium in a car and make it produce 150,000 miles of electricity...
I would say that is more likely than BEVS, in future
I am saying all this because *most* of the reasons that people object to BEVs are in fact perfectly soluble technically and at reasonable price. There is no problem ultimately building enough nuclear plant and a big enough grid to provide perfectly safe rapid charging points at every motorway stop and supermarket. Nor the batteries capable of being charged that fast, technically.
But there is probably not enough lithium in the world to do it. And anyway lithium is simply too heavy, and its the lightest battery there is.