Not to mention that the electrical grid cannot handle 50 million electric cars plugged in all at once.
The existence of shale gas and fracked oil production, despite government assistance to develop it further into self-sustaining heights, will continue to enable higher efficiency methods of energy conversion (combustion vs electric)to be predominant.
The only way for electric/battery to get a bigger foothold and to even begin to compete is if Government spends massive amounts of other peoples’ money to allow a select smaller subset of people to pursue their whimsy via subsidies.
Even the poor (they have to get to their mythical jobs, to the drug store to get their medicines, to take their chilruns to skrool, etc.) would need one of these eHoopties. And they’d need to gubmint to pay for it and to pay for running it, too.