The battery in the gasoline-powered 4Runner gave up the ghost and I’m irked the replacement battery is more than twice what was paid only four years ago. Over $200!

And then I checked the silver lining to the dark cloud. Replacing an EV battery is $20,000. Twenty thousand dollars. 100 times more expensive. One hundred times more expensive.

It’s like paying $565 for a dozen eggs instead of $5.65 for a dozen eggs. Those $565 eggs better have 100 times the nutritional benefit. Those $565 eggs better never go bad and rot.

EVs seem to be a bamboozling misdirection.