His cars based on ideas that have been around for decades using battery technology that was not his, and rocket innovation that was mooted decades ago. His cars might be silently zipping, but not cleanly, as you forget conveniently the resource cost of the vehicle, which is greater than an ICE. As far as the charging, yes, no doubt massive subsidy for infrastructure and charging points will be put in, again not calculated into the clean resource scenario, let alone how the extra electricity will be supplied, or the extra copper, the extra plastics, lithium etc., where an EV requires significantly more plastics to make up for the massive battery weight, along with the titanium shield over the battery which if water penetrates is a recipe for an explosion or fire that cannot be contained and where existing fire services are ill equipped to deal with, and God knows what happens when motorways and highways get clogged up with EV's that have run out of charge? The original resource cost of an EV was based on batteries lasting 10 years or more, and they are failing in that respect, where a report by independent Finnish researchers suggested resource cost of the EV battery alone was equivalent to driving a diesel for 8.2 years. Once an EV gets to holding just 80% charge performance is affected and range, and where the specs for EV's didn't account for colder climates where heater use, wipers and even radio affected range. We are already seeing many batteries that lasted nowhere near the 10 year, so now many are only claiming an 8 year guarantee (limited at that) which makes it more resource costly than the ICE, where the battery alone is so resource dependent, let alone the car itself.
Emergency services are not prepared for the EV situation, let alone dealing with solar installations, but with the EV, fire trucks are often the first to be used...which if unprepared may be equivalent to adding petrol to a fire. Similar dangers can occur with solar panels operating on DC.
At present they are not even geared up to recycling these batteries and an EV uses up to 150lb more copper than an equivalent ICE and where if we get to the larger vehicles, an EV bus would use 700lb. more copper.
Even 'Elon's' vacuum tunnel is something thought of decades ago, and implemented as a transport system decades ago.
