Dodge engineers once said a Hellcat can easily drain its gas tank well under an hour when driven at very high speed. Yet when driven conservatively, owners report fuel economy for all day trips nearing mid-20s mpg. I define conservatively as driven at interstate speeds while blending in traffic outside of major urban areas. Driving conditions like this are common on the prairie where I live, with speeds around mid-70 to low-80 mph range depending on conditions. Now a Hellcat is certainly overkill for such journeys, but the fact one can drive at interstate speeds for hours shows it is more than a one trick pony.
... come and tell me EV makes sense.
City cars, yes. Delivery vans, yes. After that it gets complicated. The ugly fact is most of the electric vehicle discussion is about battery electric power using lithium batteries. There is no one-size fits-all solution. If we want to see a successful example of a high speed vehicle with electric power, the TGV immediately comes to mind. That Tesla Plaid can match it for speed, but only for a few minutes. A battery electric 18-wheeler is impractical due to efficiency, infrastructure, and strategic resource management issues.
Electric transit busses make a lot of sense. Once upon a time, our nation's cities were teeming with electric busses. Chicago had the nation's largest fleet at one point. They weren't battery electric, however. They ran under cantenary electric wires and used trolley poles to obtain electricity. That why they are called trolley busses. (ETB is electric trolley bus.) Most systems disappeared in the wake of GM two-stroke diesels burning 4 to 5 gallons per dollar of fuel. GM sales people were also happy to point out their busses didn't require electric network maintenance. So do battery electric busses make sense? Of course not. The busses and charging stations aren't reliable enough and are inefficient. Municipal bus fleets discovered they will need a lot of back up busses to maintain route schedules. The specialized high speed charging network required for battery electric bus routes require maintenance with a crew of workers just as the trolley bus routes did.
One of the legacy trolley bus fleets is in Dayton, Ohio. While the concept of obsolescence was brought up on this thread, it is fascinating that federal and state of California government authorities are pushing so hard on a battery electric bus technology that is obsolete. One of the problems with trolley busses is they can't use a detour. Unlike a streetcar the ETB can change lanes, but if a portion of the route is blocked they're stuck. The transit company did a lot of research into range extenders to run off-wire. The best solution was a battery electric range extender provided by a German company. The system used in Dayton's busses uses far less batteries than the strictly battery electric bus drive-trains pushed by the government. The battery range on the newest Dayton ETBs is much shorter than an all battery setup, but is able to charge while moving under the catenary wire. Unlike what the government is pushing this system is reliable.