I'm not seeing a big future in road tripping. Look at our infrastructure lately? Think it's going to get better? Notice any increase in hostile drivers? No thank you.
Until I retire I'll continue to use my 20-year-old cars for commuting. IF there's an incentive to get my TDIs from my hands I'll consider it; but, retirement will have me driving less, in which case the equation changes (because I cannot state with any certainty how affordable things are likely to be I'm pretty much going to have to wait and adjust- I figure that at over 2x the FE that other IC drivers around me operate at I'm good for double the fuel cost; and, not needing to drive as much will mean that it'll be an even smaller part of my budget- and, how can an expensive, new [EV] vehicle be justifiable if barely used? All said, I'm more worried about what will happen with my diesel tractors than with my diesel cars! (EV tractors, um... sorry, unless one is totally clueless, and despite Elon Musk's marketing pitches, it's just not going to happen [if people want me to lay out the economic here I'd be happy to, but you're going to be put the the grinder if you're looking to take an opposing position.])
I have PV panels for my chicken coop and for my front gate opener (a rationalized cost to ensure my critters are protected). My wife's son drives a Tesla: with the pandemic it see little use; payments and little use... I've followed energy issues for nearly 40 years. I don't knee-jerk on this subject.
I'd like to think that going EV is going to eliminate our dirty wars, but, sadly, unlikely:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/29/we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-elon-musk-and-the-overthrow-of-democracy-in-bolivia/
Hydro-electric folks, people in my area (PNW), can't be blissful (hydro-electric beats everything by a mile) as the average lifespan of a hydro-electric dam is 100 years: the big Grand Coulee dam went operational in 1942, which gives it, on average, another 20 years. Pile on more EVs and when the dams quite working? Ouch! I'm struggling to see how there can be a future with EVs numbering anywhere close to what we currently have. Not commenting on this being good or bad. My point is to say that "economies of scale" aren't going to get us to the "promised land [of EVs]."
Again, I'm NOT anti anything, except anti non-thinking, anti "hide/externalize reality." It's all pretty much "poison," best we can do is be honest and ensure that we approximate real costs (killing indigenous peoples in order to increase the profit margin isn't something that we should accept; we have pretty extensive studies on how many fish hydro-electric dams kill, which, surprisingly, is fairly low, but no evaluation on human deaths as a result of other means for dealing with energy... [oil OR lithium etc.]).