What many people don't seem to consider is that it is not about the battery. Even revolutionary changes in battery capacity won't offset the fact that you need

What many people don't seem to consider is that it is not about the battery. Even revolutionary changes in battery capacity won't offset the fact that you need electricity to charge them. If you replace your cars with electric ones, your electricity needs are gonna skyrocket. Hydroelectric plants cannot radically increase their output. Nor you can create new dams at will. Nuclear plants are being dialed back. So the only viable option is to burn fossil fuels in power plants to generate enough electricity. So essentially you are shifting from burning fossil fuels in small engines to burning them in large plants. Efficiency concerns aside, how does this actually change the status quo? The only benefit of electric cars is being negated. If you bring efficiency into consideration, you might actually end up burning more fuel. Unless you invent new power generation techniques that do not use fossil fuels and can generate the required amount of electricity, electric cars are basically a hipster dream. Sounds good, but doesn't actually work.