Comment Charging (Score 2, Interesting) 382
If we could snap our fingers and convert every has engine to electric the country would grind to a halt. Imagine if there were 100x fewer gas stations (that's generous), and it took 10x as long to fill your tank.
Get a charging station at home right? What about the huge number of people that live in apts or otherwise rent and that's not an option? If you have station at your apt, you're still going to have the nightmare of shuffling your car around with every single other person at the complex.
Guaranteed, in 15 years your EV is a junker when the batteries need replacement and it costs more than the car is worth to replace (and dispose of) them. Most gas engines wear out in that time too, but they can be rebuilt in most cases for much less.
EVs are better for the environment, but it's not like they are clean either. Mining the materials for batteries is devastating. Like oil, the raw materials for batteries are often from conflict regions. Don't like wars over oil? Do you like wars over lithium? The electricity to charge isn't brought into existence by a magical fairy. Most likely it's coming from a coal-fired plant.
Of course all of this can be improved, but we aren't there yet, and it's going to be hard.