Battery cars are impractical in many scenarios
“Battery cars are impractical in many scenarios”
For a battery car to be useful, everything has to operate normally for the entire time you own the car. No power outages, no sudden government edicts that might affect transportation or power delivery, no extradentary cold weather that outlasts your battery’s power, and a power station always has to be available and close enough when you need it. Since everything that might affect your use of the car over the ownership period has some non-zero probability of happening, then the probability of it always working has some possibility of it failing. That feeling of superiority you get from snorting in disgust at your BMW-driving neighbor has to REALLY be worth it to you.