What? EVs are still way cheaper to run than petrol. Apart from the electricity being cheaper (substantially so, if you have any clue and charge when it's cheap)

What? EVs are still way cheaper to run than petrol. Apart from the electricity being cheaper (substantially so, if you have any clue and charge when it's cheap), they also require much less maintenance. The batteries are lasting a lot longer than anyone expected as well. One of the reasons battery recycling isn't really happening yet is there aren't enough batteries from the first few generations of EVs that are in a state where they need recycling. The main blocker with EVs has been the up-front cost, which is still high compared to ICE, but rapidly falling as mentioned above. Charging speeds and range are one of those things which people worry about when they buy an EV and then don't worry about after they buy and drive one: even with the fairly barebones charging infrastructure that exists now it's not actually a big practical problem. And if I were around for a carrington event, I'd much rather have a big EV pack that can run my house for a while than an ICE, especially since I could recharge it with solar. The renewable transition, with a big shift to more local generation, is even more resiliant to a disruption of the power grid, and that resiliance is further enabled by EVs.