[Flakbadger]

All of that is well and good, but what is the alternative here, stick with gasoline? Continue to pump water that can never be recovered deep into the earth to smash open reservoirs of natural gas---and have all the byproducts (venting of greenhouse gases, earthquakes, groundwater contamination, leaks, possible explosions) of those operations?

Unfortunately no one system we have is capable of taking up the mantle of cheap and easy fossil fuels, so it's going to take engineering and a lot of diversification to figure this out. I'm not saying the current battery EVs are the solution. They aren't. But the possibilities of things like metallic hydrogen, fusion generators, micro-sized nuke generators with the stable pellets, possible new nuclear plants, wind, solar, tidal generators, silicon batteries etc are all viable avenues to explore, and will HAVE to be the future, because what we are doing now is not very future oriented.