Copper can't be mined fast enough to electrify the US

Copper isn't the only conducting metal. Long distance lines tend to be steel cored aluminium conductors, and bucky tubes might eventually work even better.

At least it dosn't need air conditioning.

Car power, worst to best, roughly:

Rubber bands. Springs. Animals (humans included) Sails. Compressed gas. Steam engines. Solar cells. Batteries. Electric trolleys. Cable cars. Funiculars. Fuel cells. Gasoline turbines. Coal dust turbines. Hydrogen turbines. Gasoline piston engines.

Did I miss any?

The battery thing may have peaked. Manufacturers are leasing underused parking lots and airports to store unsold cars.

Diesel piston engines - far more fuel-efficient.

I see very few diesel cars here in California. Lots of Teslas.

Diesel peaked above the price of gasoline a few years ago, but it's down below regular gas now.

That's probably due to market forces and taxes, the diesel engine is still the most efficient because it has the highest compression ratio.

Vacuum on one side of a tunnel, air on the other side, car in middle.

Linear electric motor with stator in roadbed and "rotor" in the car. Often combined with magnetic levitation ion a monorail setup.

Stretching the definition of Car, big rockets powered by burning liquid Methane and liquid Oxygen?

Yes. Hybrids are what will survive, if anything Various friends have asked me about EVs, and I always warn them away from pure BEVs, because with a BEV one spends far too much time dealing with keeping it charged up. (Not to mention dealing with the possibility of burning the house down.) So far, they have all gone with hybrids.

Pure BEVs can make sense for local delivery vans; this was the original use, in the days of Edison.

Joe Gwinn

That's Boring!

There have been rocket-powered drag racers. Jets, too.

I built a model car that was pusher propeller-driven with a model airplane engine. I think the fuel was mostly alcohol.

We also strapped one of those cartrige rocket motors to a model car.

Teslas may have a limited fan base, like Miatas and PT Cruisers and DeLorean and those hideous Honda box things. Fads. The ugly Tesla truck for sure.

Who cares?

Manufacturers are always optimistic.A decline in the rate of growth of the market might precede an actual decline in numbers sold, but probably won't.

The bottom line is that electric cars offer more miles per joule than carbon-burning competition, so they are cheaper to run.

John Larkin is a gullible sucker for climate change denial propaganda, funded by the people who are trying to sell carbon as fuel, so he's unconscious of the other motivation that moves people over to electric cars.

Which is a problem that is going to go away as they get more popular. Gasoline powered cars are going to get harder to fuel as their population declines,

Foolish. Electric cars catch on fire less often that gasoline-powered cars. The "burning the house down" problem is one that they already have, but the media isn't as enthusiastic about reporting domestic fires started by internal combustion-engine cars as they are about reporting fires started by lithium ion batteries.

And the days of much lower capacity batteries. The technology has moved on a bit since then - you need to pay closer attention.