The one thing that bothers me about all the electric cars is the hand of big brother on the scale. I am fine with people buying as many electric cars as they want, but this idea that the government is going to literally make you to buy them, by either force or coercion, is just wrong to me. If people one day wake up and decide that all they want is electric cars, then great, we all get to buy what we want, but forcing this down our throats just seems so wrong, and it always bring unintended consequences. Let the electric car compete on an even platform with the ICE car, and let them win over the hearts and minds of the consumer. Let it be a gradual change as people change their tastes in vehicles. This approach would not bring in most of the unintended consequences as it would happen gradually, and the free market will respond to what people want. But all this forcing of this new technology down everyone's throats, when there are so many issues still with the tech and the infrastructure that are unresolved, will bring consequences with it.
Just go back to the late 60's and the clean air act, CAFE standards, and then the car safety rules. They forced down the throats of the car manufacturers these new emissions, CAFE, and safety rules in one shot. The technology did not exits at the time to get emissions levels where the government wanted in the short time frame that wanted, so a lot of money and development time, needed to go into making converters and other emission systems, instead of making better cars. Then they wanted better fuel economy and safety at the same time, for safety you needed to increase weight, and for fuel economy that was a bad thing. Then you got the oil embargo, in the middle of it all, and the USA car industry was never the same again. The reliability issues with the new emissions and CAFE stuff that was put on cars, killed the credibility of the USA auto industry so bad, that in my opinion they have never recovered. The little imported Toyotas, Hondas, etc... that started flooding the market, did not have to have almost any of the early emission stuff, and they could certainly meet CAFE standards. So, these little econoboxes, were utterly reliable and frugal, at a time when the USA built cars were just a mess of emissions and CAFE strangled, gutless, unreliable messes... Anyone remember the Chrysler "lean burn system"? What an utter POS. The feds put their hands on the scale, and literally killed the auto industry. Chrysler almost went under, AMC went under, and GM and Ford were also close to going under. GM used to have over 50% market share, and now they are down to about 15%. In fact GM was so dominant that there were talks of breaking them up like AT&T. GM did a lot of things in the 60's to actually slow down their market share growth, they were genuinely afraid of being broken up, not 10 years after all theses emission, CAFE and safety standards, they were struggling as a car company.
The clean burning, more fuel efficient, and safer cars would have come without the government having to force the car makers, and killing the USA car industry in short order. All would have happened, it just would have been slower and would not have caused all of the unintended consequences we saw. Same thing would probably have happened with the electric cars, people would eventually warm up to them, and as they did the infrastructure would slowly grow at a pace that makes sense without a bunch of consequences.