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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes
Sure there is, it's inherently less efficient then beaming energy directly to the car via powerlines, and the great thing about that is that it can be hydroelectric, solar, nuclear, or whatever. Most cities are using scalable gas-turbine power generators now that burn clean and have efficiency around 65% or better, which is way way better than ICE and you don't have to truck fuel around everywhere, to every little gas-station, let alone the energy it takes to build all those tanker trucks, storage facilities, and so on. Why limit yourself to one type of fuel when you can run electricity generated from a plethora of possible sources? ICE are surely going away, oh, not like some of the anti-electric alarmist claim, like some giant big switch being thrown and then after that date you have to "give up" your ICE car. They will simply continue to gain traction, as electric solutions have in many other industrial and consumer applications. There will be holdouts for a while where it's not practical, but eventually the engineering will be overcome. Frankly, I think some people are scared of the future, we tend to want to grab on to what we know and are used to, it's natural.
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Not scared of the future, except in the sense that a predetermined future is being forced upon us. The electric vehicle market would not exist (aside from the occasional novelty exotic like the old Lotus-derived Tesla Roadster) if not for government intervention, paid for without being asked first by a public which wasn't exactly clamoring for such propulsion systems beforehand, through taxes on the government side and higher prices on every vehicle (EV or not) to fund R&D on EVs or even stopgap measures to allow ICE to keep up with CAFE on the manufacturer's side.
Were the market to have evolved naturally based on demand, no issue, but that's far too slow for activist types who've infiltrated what is supposed to be a representative government (of the people, not special interests like environmentalists). Whatever the benefits of electric, they are not worth the "ends justify the means" measures being used by the state to achieve them, which are absolutely something to be scared of.