why so much hate towards electric cars?
I don't hate the idea.
But I well and truly despise forcible change, before a "solution" is fully considered. At the moment, at least from what I can tell, there are far too many unanswered questions.
On the plus side, clearly there are certain performance gains and emissions improvements that get hard to equal in a combustion-engine platform.
On the minus side, I suspect that wholesale change-over, at scale, to electric is going to result in much greater difficulties for economies than we suspect. At smaller proportions of whole grids, the change has been shown to be workable. Has yet to be done at scale, though. In the U.S., I strongly suspect that the grid simply won't tolerate an expansion of electrical draw that wholesale change-over to electric will require. Just from the standpoint of the customer, these things are, by and large, significantly more expensive than basic, effective combustion-powered alternatives; likely won't always be the case, but it is now. Nice thought, to think disallowing availability of something equates to people being able to afford to jump to something else because told to do so. (Home finances don't work that way, for the great majority of people.)
On the minus side, as well, current battery tech is heavily reliant on "rare earths" and other raw materials. I've yet to see it explained how such vast quantities of these items will be obtained in order to create the number of batteries to be required. Much of Europe's beholden to Russia, for example, for fossil/gas fuels ... and we see how such over-done reliance can bite entire economies right in the backside. (Anyone imagining China would be any different, if cornering the planet's rare-earths supplies, is living in a fog.)
It's all well and good to have a grid, have the ability to plug-in anywhere, have the ability to charge a lower cost during "off" hours. But I've yet to see it explained what the impact will be in terms of the grid and financially, when the "off" hours likely disappear and both night and day the grid's challenged. (Many areas simply aren't blessed with nuclear, hydro, or sufficient solar or wind to drive those options at scale.)
Figure those things out, and PLAN it out, then discussion can be intelligently had regarding when and how to push for that as a solution. Until then, until
fully understood, IMO, it's a fine localized idea, and a fine alternative for some applications, but it's hard to believe it's "the" solution until it's shown it'll work.
That said, it's a change that is likely coming. And I'm all for it. IF it can be shown as a whole solution, at scale. To my knowledge, it hasn't been. Until then, I remain skeptical about the non-specified details.
Until then, forcible dictates amount to the worst sort of social profligacy.
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