When one is paid for doing the work, it's not "one's own time", it's "time of one's own choosing."

Teachers teach/sit in meetings far less hours a day than most people in other fields. The planning work is supposed to happen in between. If they don't do it during office hours, but rather go somewhere else, and do the work later does that make that time their own time?

Maybe teachers should be "chained to the desk" for 8 hours a day and forced to do planning work while not teaching? I'm sure they would love that arrangement.

I'm not convinced they're paid only for teaching. I'm not payed only for writing code either, though that is the expected end result of my work. My mom used to teach and at least in this corner of the world the teachers are required to do planning work necessary to teach and are considered to be compensated for that time in their salary. Hence the extra material they create / plans should should be considered public property or at least be shared among colleagues. It's tougher for teachers just starting out with new material and gets easier once you've done planning and extra material, so you can reuse it the next course / year. At least here I would very much frown upon someone trying to profit from something they've done while being paid for it and not sharing it.

Not nearly as many people would need to visit the filling stations as with combustion engines. Most people will charge their cars during the night and while I don't have any statistics to back this up, most trips people take in a day are less than 500 miles. Hence the only people at the filling station would be those actually going long distances or needing servicing to their cars / themselves.

Well, AFAIK we have this system of petrol stations that covers quite a lot of the places we might want to visit. Now why wouldn't we just build a system in which you could replace the whole battery pack with a fully charged one, and leave the empty one to the station to be serviced / recharged? If done right it wouldn't require any more time than refueling normally. That's your 600 mile range covered, unless you want to go somewhere really remote, but you wouldn't go to the south pole with your standard 4x4 anyway.

Totally agree. And terrorist organization is an oxymoron too. AFAIK Al-qaida hardly had any organization prior to the agencies making it up for them. Terrorists are and have been small groups of fanatics who couldn't agree among themselves enough to form any real hierarchy. Proof of large organizations, sleeper cells etc. has not been found because there are none. They do, however, follow an ism, which is dangerous and cannot be killed off. All of this nonsense only serves to radicalize even more people to become "terrorists".