Electric Vehicles- Yes- or No- Do the Math-

​​This article does a good job of explaining why I do not drive an electric car. - a bit of a long read... worth the time.
THIS IS VERY ENLIGHTENING. GOT TO BE BIG MONEY AND POLITICS INVOLVED HERE. THIS FAILS TO REVEAL THE COST TO REPLACE THESE BATTERIES, DISCARD, RECYCLE, ETC.

An Interesting Take on Electric Cars.
This is for Engineers out there. Indeed, there should be a rebuttal to this article. Say it isn't true! As an engineer, I love electric vehicle technology. However, I have been troubled for a long time because the electrical energy to keep the batteries charged has to come from the grid, which means more power generation and a huge increase in the distribution infrastructure. Installed generation capacity is limited, whether generated from coal, gas, oil, wind, or sun. A friend sent me the following, which says it very well. You should all take a look at this short article.
INTERESTING - ONE OTHER QUESTION. IF ELECTRIC CARS DO NOT USE GASOLINE, THEY WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN PAYING A GASOLINE TAX ON EVERY GALLON THAT IS SOLD FOR AUTOMOBILES, WHICH WAS ENACTED SOME YEARS AGO TO HELP MAINTAIN OUR ROADS AND BRIDGES. THEY WILL USE THE ROADS BUT WILL NOT PAY FOR THEIR MAINTENANCE!
In case you were thinking of buying a hybrid or an electric car:
Ever since the advent of electric cars, the REAL cost per mile of those things has never been discussed. All you ever heard was the mpg in terms of gasoline, with no mention of the cost of electricity to run it. This is the first article I've ever seen and tells the story pretty much as I expected it to
Electricity has to be one of the least efficient ways to power things, yet they're being shoved down our throats. I'm glad somebody finally put engineering and math to paper.
At a neighborhood BBQ, I was talking to a neighbor, a BC Hydro executive. I asked him how that renewable thing was doing. He laughed, then got serious. He pointed out that if you intend to adopt electric vehicles, we must face certain realities. 
For example, a home charging system for an average EV requires up to 75-amp service. The average house is equipped with a 100-amp service. On our small street (approximately 25 homes), the electrical infrastructure could not carry more than three houses with a single Tesla each. The system would be wildly overloaded for even half the homes to have electric vehicles.
This is the elephant in the room with electric vehicles. Our residential infrastructure cannot bear the load. So as our genius elected officials promote this nonsense, not only are we being urged to buy these things and replace our reliable, cheap generating systems with expensive, new windmills and solar cells, but we will also have to renovate our entire delivery system! This latter "investment" will not be revealed until we're so far down this dead-end road that it will be presented with an 'OOPS...!' and a shrug.
If you want to argue with a green person over eco-friendly cars, just read the following. Note: If you ARE a green person, please read it anyway. It's enlightening.
Eric test-drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors, and he writes, "For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine." Eric calculated that the car got 30 mpg, including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range, including the 9-gallon gas tank and the 16-kWh battery, is approximately 270 miles.
It will take you 4.5 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then, add 10 hours to charge the battery, and you will have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. Your average speed (including charging time) in a typical road trip would be 20 mph.
According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kWh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery. The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned, so I looked up what I pay for electricity. I pay approximately (it varies with the amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kWh. 16 kWh x $1.16 per kWh = $18.56 to charge the battery. $18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery. Compare this to a car of a similar size with a gasoline engine that gets only 32 mpg. $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile.
The gasoline-powered car costs about $20,000, while the electric car costs $46,000-plus. So some want Americans not to do the math but pay three times as much for a car, which costs more than seven times as much to run and takes three times longer to drive across the country.