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Additionally, the 50000 includes many auto dealerships which provide them as a service to their customers, which typically may not be near a highway.

The 150,000 also includes many that are not near highways.

If you are outside of the east coast or a metro area, getting low on electriciy can be stressful, let alone doing things like offroading.

You won't pass gas stations offroading either.

If you're unlucky and it dies, some of these cars have to be taken to the dealership once they completely run out of charge to be reset, you can't just get a charge and go.

Do they? Which ones are those?

On the other hand, you don't damage an electric vehicle by running it out of power. Whereas you may damage your fuel pump if you run it on air.

I'm not against EV, but I'd like to see every state have a nuclear reactor built before we start doing things like prohibiting fossil fuel utilization or/and production.

You should pay an extra levy to cover the costs of the droughts, floods and fires you're causing. But, if that's the way you want to go. It does shit on poor parts of the world, because you're only covering droughts in the south of the US, and fires in Cali. You're not helping Malaysia, but you're damaging their farmers too.

That'd be a minimum, then we can talk about using little black and brown kids in Africa to mine minerals for EV batteries.

Certainly environmental standards and work health and safety standards are insufficient in many multi-national run operations in Africa. No matter what resource they're exploiting. It only gets better in the presence of international unions.

Funny how Nestle, the producer of most of the worlds food that crosses international boundaries can use child labour for decades, or Nike or Apple for that matter, but it's not a problem until someone is competing with fossil fuels does it.