I bought an EV two years ago. Second hand obviously because I'm not rich. It was eight years old. Within two months it stopped working, the battery was fried. There wasn't a mechanic in a 20-mile radius who would agree to work on it. Even the manufacturer garage just quoted a battery replacement which was more than the price of the vehicle. I was left with no car and the biggest debt I've ever had.
I've got an ICE car now, because when it breaks, it can be fixed.

Man, the volume of techno fascist propaganda on HN is something else.