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You ignoring the pollution created by the generation of the electric power to charge the electric vehicles as well as the African children mining the cobalt and lithium used in the batteries.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/19/children-as-young-as-seven-mining-cobalt-for-use-in-smartphones-says-amnesty
You're clearly misinformed as to what will happen to our power grid if everybody magically flipped over to electric vehicles overnight. Picture rolling brownouts and people unable to charge their vehicles unless they have solar power.
I'm not against electric vehicles. I'm against the government artificially raising the price of fuel to force them upon us, especially before the technology has sufficiently matured and before our electric grid can handle it.
"Electricity is infinite and free"? Where is it free? I just paid my electric bill today, and it wasn't one bit free. No matter how electricity is generated in the future, you will have to pay for it.
It doesn't matter if electric cars are adopted slowly. The supply of electricity to charge the batteries will just not be sufficient. The windmills cost more in energy that they will produce in their short usable lifetime. And then they go into landfills, because they can't be recycled. It's a similar story with solar panels.
The car batteries cost a fortune and don't last nearly as long as advertised. Then they have to go in the landfill as well.
You can't park an electric car outside in the sun. You can't let it get very cold. If I bought one today, I couldn't go anywhere, as there aren't sufficient charging stations. My entire county only has two charging stations. A few dozen cars would keep a line at both of them. Home charging stations are dangerous. I've read of a number of houses burning down because of them. The home charging station is another expense.
If you don't want to buy coolants, just get an old Volkswagen that's air cooled.
I don't see anything but negatives on having an electric car.
Joe Biden did by signing Executive Order 13990. Price of gas is going to go up even higher.