Fixed that for you
One problem though.
How do we know that driving an electric car ensures a cleaner Earth? That is the biggest problem with electric cars right now, not enough of the power used to charge them is clean and renewable. If all the cars in the world were magically turned into electric versions overnight tonight, the increase in global electric power capacity required to power them all not only doesn't actually exist, but if it did and was generated using power sources in the same ratio as today, it would release a virtually equivalent amount of green house gases and cause equally as much pollution as the current situation of burning fossil fuels in internal combustion engines.
Also, if everyone was driving eletric cars the cost of electricity would rise substantially as well, because of the increased demand, and the need to expand supply to meet it. This would have a knock in effect, making it more expensive to power your household as well - say hello to skyrocketing utility bills!
I mean we already have several areas of the US having brown-outs. The power grid is already in need of upgrading and expanding, and is struggling to meet the population's ever increasing demand for energy.
Nope, in my opinion, as humble as it is, I believe that the electric car isn't the answer. The answer is an upgrade of the global power grid in terms of not only capacity and infrastructure but also of power source.
If you have coal, gas and nuclear power generating the lion's share of your electricity, what's the point of electric cars?
Viable Solar, Wind, Tidal, Water and Geothermal power generation technologies need to be developed and built out on a global scale and implemented into the grid in combination with a move to electric powered transportation, otherwise it is literally pointless.
Not that I don't want a Tesla Model X more than badly, and not that I don't claim I wouldn't feel better about myself owning one, over say, an Audi Q7 or something, but I also don't think I would disillusion myself into thinking I am saving the world by driving an electric car.
Your point is valid that the grid needs to catch up. However the power derived from a central power station is much cleaner then that of a small internal combustion engine. Most of the energy is wasted as heat. Oil Well to Wheel is much more efficient with Electric than petrol/gas. Therefore we will save energy.
Also think of all the Fuel tanker driving around using up petrol. The electric infrastructure is all around us we just need to make it more efficient.
Battery tech is getting better, lighter and quicker every year and some of the up coming stuff is insane 20x capacity for the same weight. Cotton based organic batteries. Near instant charging... and when you can get a car that'll charge in an hour for 1500miles+ no one will think twice about Petrol again. Of course some people will still have use of it but for main use cars we will all be going electric.
Hydrogen is a non starter too... it's just another way to control the price and distribution. Hydrogen Gas stations are upwards of 2 million dollars to set up. A fast charging electric station about 50-100K.
And you know the same old guard will be controlling the hydrogen prices and the taxes will be high... they can't overcharge(pun!) for home electric so it will always be cheap. Of course charging when you are out and about may cost some money, well not if you bought a Tesla!, but even the infrastructure is there too... Street lamps! potentially every single street lamp could be a charging point.
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I suspect if they are making even 0.1% of sales they are making hundreds of millions a week.
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