The electric vs ICE argument is multifaceted; the foreseeable future will no doubt consist of a combination of both, as each have their distinct benefits and weaknesses. One is not necessarily a replacement for the other.
EVs are ideal for low speed city use for fleets. Operations like USPS, Amazon, FedEx, UPS, etc. only need their vehicles to last for an 8 to 10 hour day and then charge overnight, when electricity demand is low. EVs offer a great solution for them. Their current ICE vehicles spend the majority of their day idling, which is inefficient.
The problem is there are financially motivated people and companies that don’t want a balance of energy sources; they want total EV domination. Con artists like Elon Muskrat want everything to be electric and make any non-EV out to be the devil that is ruining the planet. He’s a narcissist sociopath with a cult following; if it was up to him, ICE vehicles would be illegal and consumers would be forced into buying his overpriced, underperforming, unreliable junk.
The aspect that EV promoters forget is supply and demand. When gasoline cars first appeared in the early 1900’s, gasoline was a waste byproduct of kerosene production and was discarded. As demand build up and supply restrictions occurred over the years, gasoline went from being a waste product to an expensive commodity that drivers had to wait hours in line to get.
Our current electrical grid can barely handle our home A/C demands, never mind having millions of EVs plugged into it. The cost of upgrading that is in the tens of billions. Who’s subsiding that? As always it will fall on the tax payer, as execs like muskrat haul their billions to the bank. With the additional demand, the cost of electricity will go up, not down. In many cases, especially CA, electricity available at public charging stations is already more expensive than the gasoline equivalent to that level of energy.
I won’t even get into the environmental impact of batteries, but even with the limited number of EVs in production the demands for heavy metals are significant. And with a significant supply of batteries being manufactured in China, you can only imagine the environmental destruction that will occur given their track record.
As far as range, don’t believe anything Tesla publishes; they found the loophole in the system and exploit it to their full advantage:
https://www.caranddriver.com/featur...-factor-tesla-uses-for-big-epa-range-numbers/