Converting thermal energy to motive power directly beats thermal to motive to electricity to the the grid to storage to motive power any day, and it always will for the passenger car as we know it.
The only way electric vehicles will make economic sense is if we relocate the entire U.S. population to large cities serviced by combined heat and power generating plants. The catch 22 is that if everyone lives in giant cities, who would need cars?
That Catch 22 is U.N. Agenda 21. Force us* all into cities where we can be more easily controlled.
*The "elite" would have their country daschas, of course.