[Bubba_Leroy]

There is also the issue of what to do with the 6,831 lithium-ion cells that will need to be replaced every year or so.

[theBuckwheat]

This raises the issue of life-cycle cost, which translates into cost per mile. Then we need to throw in the increased cost of electricity that will be caused by the need to double the number of generating plants, especially if those plants are capital-intensive nuclear ones.

Electric cars are not going to cheap to buy or drive. And they will have their own form of environmental costs.