It’s for people with a shorter commute. Not everyone drives over 50 miles a day. It’s a tool, use it where applicable.
Agreed. There were a couple of layers of comment and response there so maybe it wasn't clear that I've been arguing the same thing. So many conservatives' first impressions of electric cars were tainted to the degree that it seems like a Sisyphean task to try to counter it.
I actually think it should be a conservative cause to free us from all the entanglements (and all the enriching of petro-tyrants) that the West's dependence on oil entails.