“Gasoline’s dirty secret: it’s toxic, expensive and using it kills the planet.”
This type of framing is utterly pointless, and tries to make out like electric propulsion shouldn’t be used for anything because it’s not ideal for everything.
Even if we never get to everyday electric planes (debatable), that has zero bearing on the fact electric cars are already excellent for many uses.
It took my wife and I actually buying an electric car and running it for a few months to actually convince family members that electric cars are a worthwhile technology.
They were fervently against us buying one, so much so that we had to avoid conversation about it and outright lie to them about our intentions.
"You can't take it on a driving holiday."
Yeah, we'll manage with one of our other two existing cars for that, like we have when we've taken one of our previous once every couple of years driving holidays.
"You can't tow with it."
Thank fuck, I hate towing and I can't remember towing anything in the last 15 years.
The electric car, a Nissan Leaf, is perfect for 99% of our use cases. The whole family love it. It's our "first in best dressed" car.
Even smart people are fucking stupid about plenty of things.