The problem is trying to do an ‘in place’ substitution. Individual long haul trucks are always going to be wildly inefficient.

They don’t give a damn about the potential economic consequences.

And the EV credits aren’t even that restrictive.  Anyone can avail themselves of the credits, just do the work here.

https://motorandwheels.com/electric-power-your-house-bidirectional-charging/

mine are on a carabiner on a belt loop. Especially with multiple bulky keyfobs, pockets just don’t work anymore!

Vast majority of people will have cars plugged in at home. Range anxiety works in favor of this.

And John Cougar Mellencamp has the ad jingle for it

One way this helps everyone is using the EV’s as a grid scale battery.

1st Gear:

3rd Gear:  Make an EV Soul the size of Ford Flex and take my money

Ford is directly giving people installs that do just this. Batteries are batteries. And your house is significantly less taxing on the battery than driving is. It’s why car batteries can have a 2nd life as house batteries as well. When it won’t work for a car its still plenty for the home usage.

we’re talking a few percent of charge. Hardly an impact.

The fears are rational to have, but easily solved with a decent plan.

Or, you get ‘paid’ by having power instead of a blackout cuz the grid crashed.

F150 can run a full house with AC for 4 *days*. It can spare an afternoon.

The total size of all EV batteries will *dwarf* all other energy storage.

5th gear: Supersonic sounds great in theory but the practicals just don’t seem to return on the necessary investments.

So what’s your solution then?

Not quite a toddler (9) but this kid literally found a bug in the Apollo mission computers that Astronaut’s were supposedly to smart to do!

That they didn’t grok selling the car and buy something else with the post tax pymt proceeds is a sad commentary on American’s fiscal intelligence