For electric cars to be attractive to American consumers, EVs must be less expensive to operate and maintain than traditional vehicles. When the economy is struggling, environmental concerns become less important to Americans, and mandating Americans to buy a car that costs more in fuel and repairs than the car they have comes across as ludicrous, insensitive, and out of touch.

Any mandate forcing Americans to purchase a vehicle they can’t afford to take part in a virtue inapplicable to their lives and their values is what’s ludicrous, insensitive, and out of touch. It’s impossible to force this virtue without government giving away EVs for “free” and paying for maintenance for “free.” But as is widely known and accepted as fact, government doesn’t produce wealth, government collects taxes. So no government service is “free.” Taxpayers will fund this EV virtue. And if it’s escaped notice, inflation and our crippled economy can’t afford this “free” EV service without worsening inflation and further crippling our economy.

EV technology is required to catch up to the needs of American consumers. It’s not for American consumers to accommodate and tolerate an unrequested virtue. It’s incorrect asking American consumers to accept an unaffordable inferior product for the sake of mandated virtue.

I’m uncertain how it’s predicted EV batteries will become smaller and less expensive, with greater storage capacity and resultant greater range. Technology like this can’t be predicted. It’s definitely the goal and is a worthwhile pursuit, but to give assurances strides in EV battery technology are going to happen for certain is impossible to foretell. The universe limits the capacity of physics and chemistry, a terminal threshold immune to the hopes and dreams of foolish mortals. There comes an immutable point where EV batteries are as good they’ll ever be with no chance of ever being better.