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The battery problems are exactly as bad as represented. It takes a lot of "saving" to make up for the extra $12,000 expense of the fuel tank, something that costs like $100 on a regular ICE vehicle.
I'm using the Bolt EV as an example since it's among the best and most affordable EVs. It seems to lose about 1% capacity for every 8,000 miles, which is not too bad compared to previous generation EVs. That represents only a 12.5% loss in capacity over 100,000 miles. It's still not nothing, and might be part of the reason EVs suffer catastrophic depreciation.
Any EV owner that regularly makes use of public chargers has anecdotes of charging attempts that were inconvenient; either by being in use by other vehicles, ICEd, broken, not within range, or slow to charge. EVs are not good long distance vehicles.
Cost per mile is amortized over the lifetime of vehicle ownership. When you go to sell the vehicle, the difference in purchase price and sale price is depreciation. Then add in any amount spent on electricity including the amortized cost of solar, and any maintenance. That final amount divided by total miles driven is the cost per mile, and it's way, way higher than 1 cent per mile.
EVs are great around town as a daily driver, but there are real reasons they aren't dominating sales.
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