Here in the south (Alabama) I’m using solar to be pretty energy reliant. Our EV can take advantage of our homemade power. Thus, we do most of our driving in it (27K miles per year, with 15K of those miles being home charged miles for local driving, plus on each long trip the first 250 miles are home charged miles).
If I could make my own gasoline or diesel I wouldn’t have thought about an EV. As long as the Dims have their war on energy, then it’ll be very important to me to utilize decentralized solar.