I’m gonna look at the glass half full on electric cars. I think they have the potential be much cheaper to both purchase and maintain if there is a revolution in battery storage. Electric motors are cheap and durable, I’ve read on this topic. So if the industry would switch over, I would think cars would both cost less to purchase and less to maintain. Further, if there was a corresponding new source of cheap electric, such as a new generation of nuclear power plants, the cost per mile would be less than gasoline cars.
Yes it’s silly and hypocritical to own such a car today if your aim is to be an environmentalist. But the potential exist for this to just be a good development in the evolution of the car.
When you get an electric engine that will pull 20,000 pounds of hay, or tractors, or cattle and not the size of a locomotive; pull enough torque to cross a muddy creek, and sound as sweet as my power stroke for less money then we’ll talk. Until then they are hipster wagons much like the Subaru is the lesbian wagon.