Where I'm at, there's been very little support for EV's, they did put in a few natural gas stations, but too few and far between to matter and the vehicles suffer engine issues early on due to a lack of top end lube. I bought a used van from the gas company a few years back, it had 38,450 miles on it, and needed two new cylinder heads. (Cheaper to just buy two new heads then to rebuild). Then after a year, my insurance company started to surcharge me saying that aging gas powered vehicles posed a high risk in accidents due to the high pressure tanks.
Not able to sell it, I converted it back to gasoline and sold it soon after.
I had two hybrids, one Prius, one Ford. The Prius was fine for the first 5 years, when I was looking at having to replace or rebuild the main battery, I sold it. It had only 22k on the odometer.
The Ford was similar but I never liked the slow, heavy feel of the 4 cylinder engine and heavy battery pack. I sold it after only a year, but got lucky and got nearly what I paid for it since new models were scarce.
I had the chance to buy a Tesla from an estate sale but the prospect of not being able to do any work on it myself, and the charging issues, combined with the fact I don't drive much these days, I couldn't justify it.
No doubt however, sooner or later there will be no other option but I still don't think battery technology is up to the task or affordable enough for it to replace gas or diesel yet.
My pickup is diesel, its 18 years old and has only 21,000 miles or so on it. It only gets used when I need a bigger truck or need to tow something.
It should outlast me. I thought about selling it but likely wouldn't get enough to buy something much better. The same with my car which is also 18 years old and has only 33k on it. Between being semi retired, and what work I do I do from home, my vehicles don't get much use these days. The diesel truck does get plugged in on cold days, especially if I intend to use it, and all three have battery maintenance chargers on them. I currently have a 20a outlet on the side of the house that I plug only the truck into in the winter, it handles its heater and the charger.
I tried those portable solar chargers you put in the windshied but they seemed to draw the batteries down faster for some reason and you had to remember to unplug the things before starting the car. If you forgot, the thing would stop working and then become a draw on the system if left connected, killing the very battery it was supposed to charge.
Farms around here are all growing acres of fuel corn, so much so its been hard to find sweet corn grown locally lately. All the corn I saw for sale this summer was trucked in from out of state. NJ is supposed to be the 'Garden State", but locally grown anything is getting harder and harder to find.
High taxes and high real estate prices have made farm land too valuable to just grow crops. Most have turned into multi-million dollar deveopments with $650k cookie cutter homes. They build the fancy homes in farmland, then they hassle the remaining farmers over dust, smell, and noise.
Three years ago I looked seriously into going solar here, but the after crunching the numbers, and figuring how much roof space this little house would supply, the consensus was that I do not have enough roof space to generate enough power to even lower my current electric bill, and if I were to toss the oil heat in favor of all electric heat and then add in the prospect of an EV, I'd likely still be paying the same as I am now for electric and fuel oil combined, plus either paying for the cost of the solar array. None of the large solar companies who install panels thought it was worth their while since I do not have a southern facing roof angle and even with removing two large trees, I'd still not have sufficient space and exposure to generate enough power to make it worth while. They did talk a few neighbors into it though simply on the premise of 'going green' regardless of the cost.
All five companies I spoke to came back with an estimate that had me paying $30-$40 more per month for my electric, and that was without dropping oil heat or going to adding an EV or connecting the garage.
For me, if its not going to save me money or make me money, I'm not doing it. Then there's also the expense of roof repair when you have a solar set up on the roof.
My roof at the time was also only 5 years old, and every company required me to replace the roof before the install at my expense.
That wasn't going to happen. The roof up there now hopefully will last the rest of my years, beyond that, I don't much care.
Part of the problem here also is that the local power company will not buy back excess power, they even went so far as to not allow the 7 or 8 large solar farms set up here to connect to their system. We have huge solar farms, but they don't supply a drop of energy to this area. Word is they are not concentrating on new sources but on rebuilding the old oil/coal generator station to try to reduce costs after the cost of natural gas has soared recently. From what I was told, the major push to go all natural gas in 2015 has backfired and the one station is under performing and the other is too costly to run. The 100+ year old main plant is supposedly under overhaul to allow the use of oil or coal again to cut costs. We're paying 1/3 more these days for power than other areas with other electric companies. When they voted to re-tool the system, the idea was to keep costs to customers low, the end result has done just the opposite.
Its a small power company, supplying only a few square miles of customers, so minor cost increases get spread over only a few customers. It also means a smaller customer base allows them to keep close watch on everyone.
When I came here, the idea was to only stay long enough to get the house in shape to sell and to move south, but costs are so high, and zoning so restrictive, its nearly impossible to get anything done and every year the taxes go up another $400 or $500.