The problem is that we have conflated BEVs with all EVs. There is more than one way of making EVs. Most of the problems of EVs will go away once we realize that

The problem is that we have conflated BEVs with all EVs. There is more than one way of making EVs. Most of the problems of EVs will go away once we realize that. But until then, we are stuck in a fantasy that BEVs is the only solution or that it even is a solution. Any specific attack on BEVs automatically becomes an attack on the concept of EVs, with other types of EVs not even acknowledged to exist. And all of the problems of BEVs are now “necessary evils” because those other types of EVs don’t exist. It just becomes a cult of batteries, where a terrible solution most be accepted because any criticism of it must imply an even worse outcome.