xkcd

He was one of that day's lucky 10000

I like cars, I like the idea of EVs, I fucking hate modern cars (post 08 give or take) so imagine my opinions on most EVs. Just give me an electric Mule or a converted old beater I'll be happy, if it's basically anything else I better have the capacity to turn it into an EV equivalent of a dune buggy because I do not respect modern car design in the slightest, don't care if it's Chinese, Japanese, European, or American they all have shitty interiors an over reliance on electronics and generally have too many "comfort" features designed to compensate for incompetent design or drivers.

Plugable hybrids are a good compromise, when people remember to actually plug them in and run on electric when they don't need to travel long distances.

Gonna get blasted for this, given the overall sentiment here in the comments towards EVs, but EVs are going to be used to monitor people everywhere they go and have killswitches, and other shit I'd not wanna deal with.

Well if you run out of power it is easier to get someone to bring a container of gas than to get a truck filled with batteries to come and charge you for 30 min. The US has LOTS of large, rural areas with very poor EV support. Half the time the EV lots near me have some sort of problem and are shut off. They make more sense for dense, urban areas where you do lots of short trips and have access to high speed chargers.