For those of us who live in the north country where -26 is a not uncommon January temperature, EVs may not be practical unless you live in a city. Imagine driving with traffic backed up during a snow storm in below zero weather and needing your lights, wipers and defroster as well as your heater. Lots of luck finding a charging station or if you are stranded with no charge left.
1. By "live in the north country" are we talking about regular commuting up north or are we talking about people taking long trips across the north? If we're talking about regularly driving, then an EV that has a ~300 mile range in 70F weather from a 75kW to 90kW battery bank ought to be fine for a while even in a snow storm if you left the house with a full charge like most people charge their EV's at home.
2. Did you know that EV's now have built-in heaters to heat up the battery so it can accept a full charge shortly before you head off to work even in cold weather?
3. Have you heard of the opposite happening in the south? When I was young and we'd be stopped in 100F weather, all of us would have our engines running to keep the A/C's running. Which meant we were all inhaling carbon monoxide. And also meant we'd burn up our engines by running them without moving them down the road (to create air intake to help cool the engines). Lots of cars would be stranded from overheating trying to keep the people from overheating.
If you're tying to make an argument against the gubment forcing everybody into EV's, I'm with you. I'm just saying: A) make your argument with relevant information and, B) even if you're against forced EV's don't let being a small-government minded American like me keep you from embracing something that can be liberating if done at the individual level.
I'm not a libertarian in thinking the #1 issue is legalizing pot. I'm libertarian in believing gubment shouldn't control us, even in the name of "helping" us. Few things in my life have been more truly libertarian in my way of doing things than generating most of the power my wife and I need so I depend less on gubment. That's more than just talking about freedom. That's taking steps to remove some of gubment's illegal control over us. Soon I'll extend that to our mobility too -- at least mobility around town where I can have some level of guarantee there will be a charger available with power --- my house. I promise if I could do that with an ICE car I would because gasoline is so much more energy efficient. But I can't drill my own oil and refine my own gas. Nor can I drill my own natural gas or mine my own coal. Those uber efficient energy sources are ones the gubment has placed themselves as arbiters of who gets how much and what price. Well unless Bill Gates gets his wet dream way of blocking our sunlight, at least solar is an energy source the gubment can't limit.