I’m guessing I come across as anti EV. Far from it. I’m highly anti plug in only EV. It’s an absolutely horrible power source that isn’t sustainable and puts an untenable burden on the national power grid while making us dependent on geopolitical foes to execute it and is frankly horrible for the environment.
But an electric final drive vehicle is a better performance design over an ICE vehicle and is over 3x more energy efficient. The current Ford hybrid electric truck is a great stopgap solution but longer term we need to get as invested in hydrogen generation and distribution as we are about lithium mining and batteries. I posted a link where there are prototype electrolysis machines that generate hydrogen and oxygen from sea water, THE most abundant raw material on the planet.