A few years ago I built an electric bicycle. It had approximately 30 miles of range and could average about 30 mph on the flat. It cost very little to charge it up and had obvious applications... it kind of made sense. I still ended up selling it because it didn't actually fit my needs. It cost only a few hundred dollars to put together and was a fun project. Would I build another one? No.
These days people are spending massive amounts of money on electric cars which have payments that are far more than most people spend on gasoline. They cost even more when you figure in what they spend to insure, charge and maintain them, not to mention the very rapid depreciation in value.
If you remove Tesla from the equation only about 50% of electric car buyers say that they would purchase another electric car.
Electric trucks from pickups to any large commercial vehicle are mostly an unmitigated disaster.
