Jack, you know me oh so well...lol. I doubt the difference between 3200 and 3800 really matters for well built roads.

Those batteries have ridiculous hazardous materials and require highly specialized facilities to process.

Did you know electric vehicles were in full production in 1939? (learned that from Forza motorsports on Xbox360)

I had the great pleasure of going with my father to work on a huge solar farm in Germany in the spring. The owner came out and talked to us. This was state of the art stuff. Azimuth and horizon tracking, computer controlled for optimal efficiency. Sticker cost would take at least 20 years at current electricity rates to recoup costs. That did not include repairs, maintenance, and so on. I was flabbergasted, yes, I just used the word flabbergasted on this forum. He said it had nothing to do with environment or profit, but rather prestige. kind of like buying a 200K car. Just so you can say you have one.
As for not using coal, what does your state use? You have natural gas, coal or nuke. Nuke being magnitudes cleaner and safer for the environment. For all you anti nuke folks, FYI, the US navy has hundreds of nuclear powered ships, tooling around the world, dynamic situations, never had an accident that resulted in a civilian exceeding the federal exposure limits. As a matter of fact, my lifetime exposure is just a bit over 1 REM in 13.5 years, the federal limit was 1 REM a year until recently. I have more exposure than anyone I work with since I was involved with the USS San Francisco running aground a few years ago. Most of my exposure came from that job putting up lead shielding for x-rays of the piping.

I digress, electric cars are silly, just like smart cars and mini coopers. There are old hondas and Riff's super rare fiesta that get far better mileage, at a teeny tiny fraction of the cost. Those cars are 15-20 years old, we had the technology with conventional engines 2 decades ago!!!

My entire point to this thread was to allow people to recognize that we are angry at Big oil, yet we are going to replace it with someone else. More smoke and mirrors for liberal douche hippie environmentalists. There will always be some Big 'xxxx' to be angry at for as long as we need to transport ourselves quickly over long distances. The government cramming hybrids and electrics down our throat is going to result in horrible repercussions. Remember that 10 years from now that I called it This is all smoke and mirrors to keep the masses happy that the government is actually doing something. (president on red phone...sorry, it was the best I could do.)