Fantastic article here about electric cars from-- who else-- Eric Peters. On top of the arguments he makes, he's also embedded this chart, which really tells the tale.

I've always told people that if they want an economical car, look at one of the modern-day tiny-engined conventional cars, like the 3-cylinder Ford Fiesta. These cars get 50 miles per gallon on the highway, yet have all of the benefits of a conventional car: gas it up in two minutes, fun-to-drive manual transmissions, you can take it to any mechanic to get it fixed, you don't need to rob your neighbor to afford one, and so on. Now I can add "oh, and they're better for the environment than an electric car too".

But the zealots don't really care about the environment-- their only concern is virtue signalling. I had a friend once who wanted a "green" car, and when I gave him a list of high gas mileage conventional cars, he almost got aggressive with me-- very angry and defensive, even though I was just trying to help. A few months later, he bought an objectively inferior-in-every-metric $50k+ "Chevy Volt", and was handed thousands of dollars of my tax payer money in the process to artificially lower the MSRP.