David,
X100.
I agree completely with what you said and described above.
I have to shake my head at the electric car fanboys. They have no concept of the difficulties and overall impact in keeping charged millions of electric vehicles all over the world. They're only able, currently, to get by with their electric vehicles because they primarily use them only for local running around and because there aren't many of them.
Fossil fuels store a huge amount of energy per unit of volume and stations can replenish it fast. Vehicle owners can even carry their own refueling supplies via "gas cans".
I don't know what the long term "personal transportation for general use" power solution is at this point. It isn't batteries powering electric motors and it isn't CO2 coming from burning fossil fuels.
Maybe it's fuel cells fed from fossil sources or ultra-compact nuclear fusion reactors??
All that being said ... scientists do tell us that mankind is currently harvesting only a small fraction of the sun's energy that is bathing the Earth. We've got to figure out how to bottle that energy compactly so we can carry a bunch of it around powering our personal self-driving modules.
