In order to jump start things over here, I "borrowed" a post from the older thread that sort of turned into the main EV discussion thread that I wanted to address.

Quote Originally Posted by DDT951 View Post
I think the "not practical" is a valid argument when.

1. Weather is very cold (lithium batteries are stored cold when they want to put batteries into "hibernation")
2. Long distance driving involved
3. Trailer towing or heavy loads (especially with long distances).

Gasoline / Diesel definitely has the advantage over batteries with 1) amount of energy that can be carried on a vehicle and 2) speed at which the energy can be replaced.

What I envision in my future (not immediate) is there will probably be mix of electric and hydrocarbon fueled vehicles. I could see keeping my pickup for the reasons listed above, but for a "city car" or "daily driver" electric would probably be really good.
I wouldn't say it's not valid but it's far less valid than some believe. Your points go on to speak to exactly this:

1. While it's true Lithium Ion batteries don't like cold, that doesn't mean that engineering can't overcome this shortcoming for using them in vehicles. As a result, some of the cars handle it far better than others so a common mistake a lot of people make is "well EVs this or that" and lump them all into one category. I can tell you that I wouldn't go back to owning an ICE car in Colorado, especially in the winter. If you get an EV that has provisions for BMS that regulates the cell's temperature (for both hot and cold) to keep them at am optimal state this is really a non-issue other than slightly decreased range in the winter. This last fact is far less impactful one some vehicles than others and overall, far less impactful than some would have you believe. Being able to open an app on my phone and have my cabin be 70 degrees (or whatever temperature I want) within 2-3 minutes in any ambient temp is priceless. Never waiting for an engine to heat up to make heat or pre-heating a vehicle is priceless. The cars we have are the best winter car we've ever owned for many more reasons than just that.

2. See my other posts about this topic exactly. My wife and I take regular road trips all over the country in the summer months. This is a direct result of having Teslas as we rarely did it prior to owning them and certainly didn't do it for fun. This is a continually improving metric so between ranges going up and charge rates going up along with rapidly expanding Supercharger network this has become a pretty minimal difference unless you are the type of person who pulls a horse trailer, drives 2,000 miles in a single day and pisses in bottles versus stopping. This isn't how I choose to travel though, especially since having blood clots in my lungs a while back. Getting out for bio breaks and stretching every 2-3 hours isn't a bad thing IMO. But yeah, if I just described you then an EV probably isn't practical.

3. I agree with this. Hell, even Elon aka "King battery guy" says that BEV isn't the right technology for this use. He's gone on record several times saying that it's not the right tech for long-haul truckers. Nobody is making anything else though and Tesla is a battery company so... BEV semi! lol I tend to agree though that this isn't the way but there's got to be a better way than what we currently do. Even hydrogen (once we find a way to lower the cost of production and lots of other variables to make it viable) is probably a better solution for that use. It can be done with EVs (especially the newer ones coming out engineered for it) but it's not the ideal solution for most and viability varies based on many factors.

There are also lots of negatives to your pros of gas/diesel over EV so if you weighed them out you'd probably be surprised. That said, I know your list wasn't meant to be exhaustive so it wouldn't be fair for me to start addressing it as such.

In summary, I will say that EVs being "not practical" is a common misconception as they are not only practical but offer a significant improvement over ICE vehicles for most these days. I think lots of people checked out on them years ago based on what was true then but hasn't been for years now and kind of checked out. I'm often times guilty of the same thing though.