Perhaps for many people. But to that I have two observations that keep me from accepting the premise wholeheartedly.
A) The new legislation for a "kill switch" in cars unfortunately isn't for just EV's. It's for all cars.
B) The left has much control of our access to energy from hydrocarbons (I agree with the author that we should quit using the term "fossil fuels"). The bottom line is that virtually no one can make his own gasoline or diesel (or propane) to fuel his car. But many of us who live in the south can feasibly produce our own power with solar. It takes lots of homework to do it feasibly for your particular situation. But it can be done.
In our case last year, 83% of the power we consumed in our all-electric home came from solar, including charging our EV for a total of 16K miles (not counting miles from charging away from home on trips). 12K of those miles were in the warmest 8 months of the year (when our power is almost 100% free). That's with other luxuries like running a hot tub and such without limiting our lifestyle or care about running or heavy appliances or charging our EV only on days when we have free solar.
I'm not saying EV's are the best solution for everybody, nor should it be forced or coerced with subsidies. But if you have a bit of a prepper mindset and one thing you're worried about is the left controlling our transportation, and if you live in the south where we get lots of sunshine, then having one of your cars being an EV might be the best option at reducing the left's ability to limit your transportation.
We have both an EV car and a gas pickup. The left has to mess up our access to both gas and power to limit us from driving on long trips. And if they do that, we still can drive locally with the EV.
You mentioned a ‘hot tub’ which reminded me of a friend of mine now deceased.
He was an Electrical Engineer.
He took the electric pump for his hot tub and mounted it on an aluminum plate that became a heatsink connected to the piping for circulating the water. Thus the water was constantly warmed by the motor heat.................