“And I’m betting, if he had one, was using his gas powered car all day, during the recharging.”
I saw a study on why people had dumped their EV’s and gone back to gas. Number one on the list was people who only owned the one car. The next correlation on the list was people who were in the modest middle-income class. (Those two are probably related.) The next, if recall correctly, was people who had long commutes.
The article took this to mean that EV’s were only for people who live close to where they work, had higher than average incomes and owned more than one car, the other of which was gas powered.
Henry Ford put America on wheels because he serviced the low end of the economic spectrum. He did it affordably and he, as much as the Conestoga wagon, opened up America to live anywhere they pleased and commute to the job that paid the most. This is the opposite of what the EV does.
EV’s are a passing fad. The ore needed for the batteries comes at a high human and ecological cost. And disposing of said batteries in a safe manner is not going to ever be cost effective.
Not too mention that lithium isn’t exactly common or recycleable.