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See 117 for the problems they need to solve to have a viable vehicle for the general case...

Now as for the “problem” that an EV is trying to solve vs a combustion engine, that’s a whole different discussion.

First go to answer is “pollution” but this is dubious, as the production and lifetime impact of an electric vehicle is actually more damaging in many ways than a combustion vehicle. The one area it does win is exhaust from the vehicle itself, but this is dubious on a few levels. Trading tailpipe emissions for power plant emissions doesn’t really gain you a reductions... to power every car as an EV you would need 30% more electricity produced than you do today, and combustions i s how the majority of electricity is produced.

Secondly electric cars double the amount of OZONE produced per mile vs combustion vehicles... and do so at the ground level, which is where OZONE is harmful.. You think that OZONE haze over LA is bad now, it would DOUBLE if everyone were driving an electric vehicle.

One thing electric will do, is give far more control away. Unless you have a way to generate electricity on your own, you are completely beholden to the reliability and availability of the power grid. Gasoline is portable, and easily storable... electricity is not.

ALl you need is a container. Electricity, not so much. Solar panel could I suppose solar trickle charge you in a natural disaster situation given enough time, but not as simple as pull out the gas can in your garage/shed and fuel up to get where you need to go... obviously a longer term situation, access to gasoline can become problematic as well.. and even trickle charge would be better than no gas.

But the claim is pollution mainly, or the end of hydrocarbons if you buy into the belief they are finite. However the latter argument is dubious since overwhelming majority of electricity is created using them as well.