Re: There's no denying it: EVs are here, and they're gradually displacing more gas-powered vehicles.
You've nearly got a full house of FUD there.
EV market is currently growing strongly, at the expense of flammable/explosive liquid based vehicles.
Limitations:
- Climate (don't buy ICE, go EV)
- Chargers (not perfect, but getting better each year. Soon you'll be bemoaning the lack of liquid fuel dispensers)
- Cost of electrons, I get about 2p/mile, using current diesel costs (£1.70/l) and my previous vehicle's economy (38mpg, call it 40) that's 20p/miles - literally ten times the price.
Of course I get more expensive electrons on a long journey - say a journey that's fully twice the range of my battery - I pay 2p/mile for the first battery then 65-75p/kWh -> 16-19p/mile for the second (and a little spare) so I pay ~9p/mile for the rare exceptionally long journey, still half the price of liquid fuels.
- Range. You need to stop every so often, but 350+ days a year I don't spend any time charging - not even a "quick" ten minutes at the smelly garage once a week.
- Horrendous accidents aren't actually made any better or worse by EVs - slightly more energy to dissipate, but not all that much.
- I've never actually seen anyone melted by a battery, plenty of images of people self immolating with your choice of "safe" propulsion.