My bicycle travels four days to work and home before I recharge it. About 25 MPH. About 35 miles between charges. Of course rainy days is a no-go and if the temperature is below freezing, forget it. 48 volts and it takes about six hours to recharge. That’s a lot of DC Amps stored in that thing.
I got electric bikes for my wife and I, and they are hugely fun. We don’t go on the road much with them and spend our time on bike trails, and if I am miserly with use of pedal assist I can get maybe 25-30 miles on a battery, though I 3D printed a battery holder and carry two extra ones when we ride...just in case!
That said, they are for fun. It isn’t something I would use for anything serious unless I had zero choice. If I could ride it to work on a safe bike path, I would in warm weather, just for fun.
And I am damn careful with those batteries, too. I don’t leave them charging when I am not home or overnight if I can remember to unplug them. Don’t trust that at all.
But damn. Cars? Trucks? Planes? This is profound stupidity.
We have a Freeper who pooh-poohed electric vehicle fires by saying fires happen with ice vehicles, too.
And that is true.
But a search tells you there are a billion cars on earth today, and out of those, there are 5-10 million electric vehicles, probably counting busses and trolleys that use overhead electric wires.
Just imagine how many fires would happen if there were a billion EV on the road.