I always read threads like these, from back to front. Crazy that no one has said this upthread. Told my significant other this last night - ev cars allow the govt to control how far Americans can drive - strictly from one charging station to another. And if they decide to shut them down - we are not going anywhere.
Gas vehicles/owners can stockpile to a greater or lesser extent - so long as the powers that be allow gas to be sold that is 😑
The fact of the matter is that cars have become more electronically run, including the ICE ones. The 2006 Saturn Ion I had gotten from a Car rental eventually had the engine fail because the internal computer chip controlling the processes for the engine such as fuel injection was failing, I am not sure when the internal electronic engine operations could be remote shutdown but even newer gas cars are electronically run in the engine.