uh, yeah.
brief summary of EV issues:
1. Range: abysmal, especially in climates that require air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter. AND the kind of states that have those extreme temperatures also tend to be the states with large geographic sizes where one has to drive LONG distances pretty much to anywhere, like the Rocky Mountain States and adjacent states.
2. Recharge time: again, abysmal, typical household recharging takes all night without large expenditures on fast-charging equipment and associated wiring, main panel upgrades, and even service entrance upgrades. Figure aboutt $5,000 per EV times 253,000,000 EVs = 12.5 trillion dollars for home charging system upgrades.
3. Recharge availability: once again, abysmal, requiring literally billions of recharge stations, since pretty much every car needs its own recharge station in every parking space. Total parking spaces in the U.S. are estimated at about 2 billion. Cost to build a pubic fast-charge station is about $60,000. Thus the necessary PUBLIC recharging infrastructure would cost roughly 120 trillion dollars.
Ultimately,though, the BIG issue is range anxiety, namely the product of abysmal range multiplied by abysmal charging station availability. Charging can be fixed for a measly dozen tens of trillions of dollars, but no amount of money is going advance battery technology beyond small, incremental improvements.