Futurology

And show me the math that EV's are a better solution.

Like a spreadsheet listing all the details.

Right off the bat, during charging, 20% of the energy is lost as heat (on average), and there's a similar loss during use. So lots more electricity has to be generated to use a battery.

This is never discussed.

EV's are a distraction from much larger consumers. One elephant in the room: shipping. We're shipping food around the world - surely growing locally (especially in the US) makes a lot more sense. With greenhouses, lots of the country could have the 4 growing seasons of California, without the trucks going all over the place. Why am I getting grapes from Chile, surely even CA grapes would cost less to get to me? They still have to come to me on the same trucks from California. What bizarre legal framework makes Chilean grapes, shipped thousands of miles, more profitable for the power brokers (because that's why it happens)?

Hell, anywhere east of the Mississippi could easily do this (I grew up around greenhouses there. Plenty of water and sunshine). Shit just grows on it's own from Iowa to Manhatten, Boston to Disney World.

Just look at the container ships going back and forth to China every damn day. Again, surely it would make more sense to manufacture at least regionally, but again, power brokers have manipulated laws and regulations so they can increase their control by pushing manufacturing overseas to "developing" countries, with minimal safety and labor regs.