That being said, they are an awful option for most people currently because government pushing them when the support structure is incomplete.
I think the technology works for vehicles (the torque is crazy) just as I love my power tools and phone or this laptop.
The dirty problem is the current battery chemistries which come with a unique set risks and we are not doing enough to teach public safety or other persons handling these to include the public in general about the downsides and how to mitigate them. We are also struggling to recycle these even with the new companies dedicated to it.
You generally get what you pay for, but people cannot abuse these things (off-road is not advised!). Tesla is probably the safest in my estimation and they are continually trying to make them safer.
As you gripe about, the government “war on fossil fuels” is not helping as they have latched onto this technology and are pushing it beyond its capacity in some cases (the bigger they are the more likely they are to fail).
Another blind spot for politicians is that in order for green energy to succeed we need shipping containers with 40 EV packs in them all over America to capture wind/solar. Bad idea and they are burning too frequently because as I stated above.... it only takes on bad cell in the midst of thousands and its done.
The further we move towards a “green grid” or whatever term they are using the more we turn over our electrical security to China because China dominates over 80% of the battery space from mining/refining to production.
The pollution damage from these things if they are in a fire of any kind is horrific.
I do see that EV’s can meet the needs of those who generally don’t drive long distances, but I am holding out for a different battery. With that said, statistically the odds are you will never have a problem with yours as long as it is cared for, not abused, and its not involved in a bad accident.
In some ways, we have gotten a little in front of our skis with this but I am not “anti-EV”, I just want people to know a bit more about these and we need to keep them within a scale and in applications where the risk/benefit analysis makes sense.
Tesla is meeting the limited demand for the boutique EV market. That is it. 5% of the market.
Support structure? The average human does not WANT an EV.