My youngest son and one of his friends are making a little money on the side. They buy used Prius's and similar cars from dealers cheap. Ones with batteries going bad and too old for the dealers to make money fixing them. They then diagnose the battery packs and replace the dead cells and then sell them on the friends brothers used car lot. Not getting rich doing it but keeping busy and having fun. Kind of like back in the day when I bought cars with bad engines, trannys or rear ends and fixed them and my father in law sold them on his car lot.Electric cars are not going to go away but I do believe like fossil fuel vehicles, there is a lot of smoke and mirrors that takes place. A vehicle can have close to no emissions but what about the factories in other parts of the world that built them? What about all the wasted parts that go into vehicles when techs can't diagnose them. They still have to be produced and the old parts head for the landfill. I am sure that this is a very efficient way to stay green.
So now we have electric. Same story, different dance steps. Same ending. If I spent 60 grand or more on an electric vehicle, it would be a frosty day in hell that you would take part of my car and trade it for someone elses. Sooner or later these batteries die. Who pays for the replacements? Oh wait, that will be built into that nice little money grab for the exchange program. No thank you.
Sticking to fossil fuels for now. Love electricity but .....