It will not be long before you will be able to buy an electric car for a song—The law of supply and demand will take over. They must lower the price or send the whole lot of these new cars into the land fill. Just wait until the Depression hits. No more worthless paper money, no jobs, and your welfare will only buy you a couple of Big Mack Burgers.($250 a pop with fries). Americans will know starvation for the first time since the Civil War. There will be no more pets or stray animals as they will be eaten for food. Buffalo will become extinct as they are turned into steaks. Guards with orders to shoot to kill will be a feature of every supermarket, with floors stained by the blood of looters. You will be forced to show money to enter a market, or be turned away. A Democratic Dream, GOP Nightmare.
A huge hunk of the USA will secede if that were to happen.
I simply can't drill my own oil and refine it into gas (to fuel a gas car and be mostly self-reliant with my transportation) like I can produce power to charge our EV. Of all the miles we drove it in the past 12 months, 15K of them were charged at home. Of all the power my home needed in the past 12 months (including charging the EV), 80% of it was homemade power (the other 20% had to be pulled from the grid).
If I'm right that the Dims will keep pushing their warmageddon cult to use their energy policies to slowly control us more and more with energy price inflation and regulating how much access we each have, then those of us unhappy with government control will be making ourselves less dependent on the public energy market. Put another way, think prepping, not for total collapse of society (like surviving in a Mad Max movie with a year supply of food and such), but against the slow boil killing the frog by making us chose more and more to give up our freedoms to enjoy the comforts in life.