Create the infrastructure for the distribution of hydrogen by use of fuel cells, and then maybe you are talking sense about widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Batteries are a cumbersome, inefficient, and with a very poor cost/benefit ratio, ultimately not economically feasible means of supplying electric power to automobiles.
For the infrastructure, the first priority is to VASTLY expand the electric power generation capacity of this nation, then taking the grid into many small, separately self-contained units that can drop out of the wider grid almost instantaneously, should an attack be made on any part of the grid. Power each of these smaller grids with small modular nuclear power electric generation plants, and using technology already available or well into the beta test stage of development, begin implementing the construction and distribution of these factory-built components. These new developments in nuclear poser are both MUCH less expensive than your father’s and grandfather’s nuclear plant designs, and eliminate nearly every one of the objections ever raised to the use of nuclear power. It is only superstition that prevents their widespread adoption and use in today’s world, but these advances in technical expertise can be the future of electric power generation for decades if not centuries to come.
“Power so cheap it need not be metered, but available on a monthly subscription alone.” Strive for this ideal, and the generation of hydrogen from electrolysis of water is an economically feasible source of hydrogen for fuel cells.
Which in turn power your automobiles and all kinds of mobile and portable tool applications.
Yep, EVs are going to require nuclear power generation. Unfortunately the left, as part of its Cold War political agenda, derailed nuclear power through decades of propaganda designed to create public fear. Now they want EVs but they’re screwed because they took nuclear off the table. I’m expecting them to do a complete reversal on nuclear power in the next few years. Once that happens there will be a proliferation of modern nuclear plants which will solve the basic energy supply problem.
“It is only superstition that prevents their widespread adoption and use in today’s world.”
I’ll call that comment BS
...and the reason follows!!!
“Power each of these smaller grids with small modular nuclear power electric generation plants, and using technology already available or well into the beta test stage of development.”
Nothing like you have suggested exists except in the US Navy. Only recently have the first plans for such been approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. https://apnews.com/article/technology-or-state-wire-ut-state-wire-id-state-wire-science-910766c07afd96fbe2bd875e16087464
Plans approved NOT a working example from the approved plans, and probably due to the slow nature of government five to twenty five years in the future unless a grid collapse changes the timeline. Not to mention public concern.
Consider how long the Navy has safely powered many ships through nuclear reactors over many many years and yet civilian use is shunned as the plague and regulated into a virtual stand still.