An argument for electric vehicles a lot of people miss is sovereignty 

You can live in the woods with no gas stockpile (or fuel supply network) and charge from a waterwheel, solar panel, woodfired steam engine, human power (dynamo), windmill, weird energy-emitting alien obelisk you found. Anything. 

That’s freedom.

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Yeah that’s a great point. I was wondering if anyone would bring up batteries because there’s so pretty incredible technology at the bleeding edge right now and once it’s released electric will be the clear best option.

Although one thing I believe in that may surprise people is…

Also giant battery built in for deferring generated power (with V2L), allows you to be more opportunistic and more predictable reserves. Otherwise really hard to do on your own (maybe gravity batteries if you have access to hilly terrain).

Yeah that fair too. In that case I would point to other benefits like being able to run the vehicle indoors without carbon monoxide emissions, or how much quieter electric vehicles are. But I’m not opposed to modding existing vehicles to run on biodiesel

Idk the sovereign carbon burning life could be fuel from corn moonshine or canola biodiesel.