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I have 2 degrees in science.

We have poured 100 years of innovation into gasoline engines and are approaching the end of efficiency improvements. We are just beginning to get to efficient electrical energy storage. In that i mean what physics tells us is possible.

But, if you want to hang around the gas station drinking beer, go right ahead.
My car charges overnight. I never visit gas stations, unless I am driving my Mustang GT. (350 mile range).

My car charges overnight. I never visit gas stations, unless I am driving my Mustang GT. (350 mile range).

I know! I know!

Let's strip mine the whole world for battery materials and cover what's left with solar panels so we can drive around between strip mines under the shade of solar panels and wind turbines!

That's so much better than using "fossil" fuels that aren't "fossil' and that don't require converting the entire planet to the service of EVs.

“But, if you want to hang around the gas station drinking beer, go right ahead.”

You mean hanging around gas station drinking beer so I can waste as much time as an EV user for refills.
Red herring much? I don’t drink beer, I don’t snack between meals and I don’t hang around gas station, if you want to know. And the gas station is just down my road, it takes me much less refill time than for you to plug in your EV everyday. And I don’t risk burning my house too, which can help. I don’t even live in a house, I live in an apartment so charging my dream EV through a cord hanging off my balcony is not an option.
But you don’t see any of that, do you, since in you live in your bubble.

BTW, what does “we are just beginning to get to efficient electricity storage” even mean??? The Electrobat was an electric car and it was commercialised in the... 1890s! The fastest car around the 1900s was the Jamais Contente (”never happy”) which was... an electric car. The fact that the electric car had never caught on is precisely because of physics.
On the other hand, it’s not even true that we are approaching the end of efficiency improvement of the ICE, that efficiency has consistently improved about 1% per year for decades with no sign of slowing down and we have plenty of new topologies that could make more jumps in efficiency. This improvment would have been even much higher than 1% per year, had the ICE not to comply to all the environmental requirements that let the EV infrastructure scott free.

You didn’t even address the fact that “charging” by filling gas is at 10MW while charging by plugging has been at best at 500 kW, an order of magnitude gap that can’t never be leveled by any known physics or economics. That’s probably because you have no argument.