The grid isn't ready for anything we're doing the next 20 years. That goes without saying: the grid was built for the needs of the present, not for the needs several decades ahead. The grid will be upgraded to handle it, just like the grid has been upgraded many times in the past to deal with increased demand.

The region around Oslo has hundreds of thousands of EVs without any upgrades to the grid. The Norwegian government has studied the issue and found that no grid upgrades are even needed if most cars charge at night. There's lots of spare capacity at night. I have my car charging set up to be controlled by the electric company based on price right now. It's super easy to set up.

> Electric cars are privacy nightmare

False. The drive train has absolutely nothing to do with privacy. SOME modern cars are a privacy nightmare. There are plenty of "smart" ICE vehicles too.

> Electric cars can be hacked (Hyunday and Kia could be stolen using USB cable). It is more vulnerable

False. There's no difference between EV and modern ICE here. Both are started electronically these days, and that can make them less vulnerable than older cars since you can have cryptographic verification of your key.

> There is still a ton of energy required to create a electric vehicle

True, but over the whole lifetime the energy required is less. When the battery is recycled and a second EV created from the materials, the energy needed is FAR less.

> and uses slave labour

I'd say false. Anything we manufacture has a risk that the materials were unethically mined. Since EV car makers care about their image, they tend to audit their supply chain to reduce the chance of unethical mining.

Do you think the company refining your gasoline care if the cobalt used in refining gasoline comes from slave labor? What about the cobalt going into your metal alloys? Nobody cares, because nobody is trying to use "cobalt slave labour" to attack those industries. But fossil fuel lobbies are constantly pushing this as an argument against EVs.

> EV is not plan to last a decade. Electronic parts do not last that long. You can easily find a decade old Mercedes

False. We have plenty of decade old EVs here in Norway. The Nissan Leaf came out in 2011 and there's plenty of them here. Yes, quite few of them have degraded too much, and needs a new battery. But that's because they started out with a tiny battery (gets cycled more often), had an old battery chemistry and bad BMS with no cooling.

Even if the battery must be replaced, the rest of the car is totally fine. An old EV with a new battery is MUCH more reliable than an old ICE car. Since newer batteries are better, you can also end up with a car that's better - with longer range - than when it was new.

My old Kia Soul EV is 7 years old and has zero issues, and not much degradation. My neighbors decade old ICE car just broke down, and they're borrowing our old EV right now. (We have a second newer one as well)

Solid state electronic parts can last multiple decades. Electric motors can essentially last forever (there are EVs from the early 1900s still working with no motor refurbishment). Mechanical parts generally do not last long without having to be refurbished/replaced. It's an inherent problem when you have moving parts rubbing against each other.

> No real plan for battery disposal

Completely false. EU has battery recycling regulations, and EV battery recycling is already up and running at an industrial scale.

> Does not work well in winter

False. I drive my EV to my moms cabin in deep snow every winter. Modern EVs are MUCH better than ICE cars in winter. Yes, the range is shorter. But try driving a modern AWD EV in snow. The traction is insanely good. That's what being able to adjust the torque precisely 100s of times a second gets you.

Yes, the range of my older 7yo old EV is rather short in winter. But nobody makes EVs with such a small battery anymore. And it's still much better than an ICE for short trips around town and commutes to work.

> You cannot park it everywhere, as malls and garages will not allow it

Hilarious. EVs catch fire far less often than ICE cars. The statistics are crystal clear on this.

An airport car garage burned down in Norway. Started by a spontaneous fire in an ICE car. It was also full of EVs, and despite being surrounded by a firey hellscape, NOT A SINGLE EV BATTERY PACK CAUGHT FIRE. Can you imagine if every car was EV? If there's no gasoline to fuel the fire, it might not have spread as fast, and it might be easier to extinguish the fire before the whole building burned down.

> There are many downsides of having EV

There are a few. But there are way more downsides with ICE.

Most of all: you are literally poisoning yourself and your neighbors by driving one.

The air quality around Oslo has noticeably improved the last few years.