Prices are dropping steadily. Issues with range, cold, etc., are getting better year by year. Recharging and infrastructure is improving, and as the article mentions, more hotels like Hilton and Best Western are already cooking deals to provide charging for guests.
You're going to see more a more restaurants and businesses and apartments do that same as incentives. Stay here. Shop here. Eat here. And charge your car while you do so.
Recycling is definitely a thing, especially now that we're starting to see enough EVs with batteries to recycle. The materials used are too precious. As such the "e-waste" problem is anything but.
I too made the early transition from film to digital, and heard the plethora of reasons why film would never die.
And in a way, they're correct. It never did. Completely, I mean, it's still possible to buy and shoot and process film... even though 99.99% of the population does otherwise.
Automakers have spent the last century on the ICE, and today struggle to eke out another 0.5% of efficiency.
EVs are just getting started. I don't expect to see the last ICE disappear from the road doing my lifetime. I do, however, expect to see fewer and fewer and fewer, each and every year.
EVs are simply that much better.
Especially when they start to provide capabilities that no ICE can match.
