“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.
“For a battery car to be useful, everything has to operate normally for the entire time you own the car.”
or,
For an ICE car to be useful, everything has to operate normally for the entire time you own the car.
“power station always has to be available and close enough when you need it.”
That’s one that sticks in my mind.
Southern coastal states get mandatory evacuation orders all the time during hurricane season.
The complications that would result from driving a battery car in just that scenario alone are many I would think.
I can see 100 people fighting for 10 charging stations while trying to get out of the path of a cat III hurricane.....not good.
If an EV works for your use-case, then buy one—if it doesn’t, don’t. It’s just that simple. As with everything in life, the issue is not black and white, regardless of what the FR anti-EV Luddites think, and regardless of what any radical EV evangelists say.
I personally know people who own EVs as commuter vehicles and also own diesel trucks. These people certainly aren’t “snorting in disgust” at BMW owners, as you suggest. Again, every vehicle has its purpose, and every vehicle owner’s needs are different.