Part of this is that your fears about the time the battery lasts and the cost to replace it may be unfounded. Batteries keep getting cheaper, and over those 10

Part of this is that your fears about the time the battery lasts and the cost to replace it may be unfounded. Batteries keep getting cheaper, and over those 10 years, you might really only get down to 75-80% capacity (Tesla, for instance, warranties above 70% for ten years or 100k miles, and there are people with batteries at 300k now, they last much longer). Batteries in cars that are ten years old now may not fare as well. But we’ve just seen this explosion of improvement in technology. Today’s batteries last longer, and tomorrow’s will last longer than that.