People smarter than you or I are investing billions in alternative sources of energy. You seem to have taken the "settled science" approach in that gas-powered internal combustion engines are as good as it's ever going to get with respect to automobiles.
However, I'm thinking the real issue here is that you have accepted the narrative that anybody talking about "electric cars" is pushing some kind of Leftist liberal agenda.
You seem to associate electric cars with smug yuppies from San Francisco who wear goatees and sip on $7 lattes while tooling around the Bay Area in their Teslas and Priuses with a superior attitude about them. You would rather put the brakes on this technological progress in order to "wipe the smug smiles" off their faces.
You are taking this WAY too personal.
What I'm saying is to stop ceding progress to liberals. Conservatives should be championing new technologies and progress, not fighting against it because they perceive liberals as "getting a victory".
Let's get involved and claim the victory for ourselves.
Granted an internal combustion engine still kicks butt. But that does not mean we should stop trying to develop something that could turn out to be even better. Even if today, it's not better.
Imagine if the world gave up on aviation because they thought that that ugly noisy contraption built by the Wright Brothers that barely got 20 feet off the ground at Kitty Hawk was not as efficient as hot air balloons for getting up into the air.
There comes a time, when political idealism, outweighs true technological progress. If the “well money, smart ones” have great progress in doing anything to advance Our Lives- then let us see their cards. With no strings attached. You will never see that real ideal- except in advertisement, via everything you think you are looking at. No matter- what. This is the reason, socialist-fascism, is finally pimping/working globally. As a true deception.
There is nothing magic about an electric car. You still get the energy from somewhere, and you have to store it somewhere. Storing electricity in a battery or a graphened buckyball supercapacitor or anything you can think of will always be less efficient than using the energy directly.