It's all very foolish, and for most people electric cars make no sense at all. People living in cities where electrics would otherwise be best suited typically have only street parking, no driveway or garage to charge up overnight. Then even if you do have a garage, yeah you can charge your battery-powered car, but then if you have a family with a couple of driving-age kids that have their own wheels, now you need 4 home charging stations and enough power piped into your home to feed them all simultaneously - bigger family and more drivers in the house, even more charging stations will needed. Not to mention that the power grid at least here in the U.S. can barely keep up with the demands of the present day.

The twig-boys pushing this nonsense are living in a fantasy world.

IMO electric powered vehicles sound good in theory ( less moving parts, lower maintenance, low or no emissions, etc.) but the engineering just is not there.  Neither is the infrastructure to support it. 

Most buyer do not think about long term consequences of the electric cars, they want something cool that not everyone drives. Most manufacturers took advantage of this situation and jumped into the segment. 

The only reason people drive electric cars, is so that they can tell everyone that they drive electric cars.

EVs and all the considerations/supporting structures are in their infancy.  That being said, the consumer should always have options:  gas, diesel, hybrid, hydrogen, all electric rather than be funneled towards a particular technology.  As it is, it is bad enough these car companies have or are moving to turbocharged engines with 8, 9, 10 gear transmissions and CVTs.  Anyways, these companies don’t have a choice with ever increasing CAFE and emissions standards dictated by “those that supposedly know better.”  As for me, I will continue to stay with ICE for as long as possible.

why can't you take any car,

remove the engine and drivetrain, gas tank, etc and put two traction motors in the rear along with a battery pack?

I am just worried what is gonna happen next 5 to 10 years if every car went electric without proper infrastructure....we are DOOMED 😭😭😭

I don’t think they are a gimmick.

And I don’t think it is in its infancy. It’s more like a toddler.

The technology itself works. The problem is mass producing these components of the electric motor and battery at a profit.

Tesla barely makes a profit on their cars. Their profits come from credits to other car makers fit making a clean vehicle when others car fleets can’t meet government standards. 

It’s hard to set up the supply chain to build these things at scale. 

ICE car makers have to transition their assembly lines and suppliers to support EV’s. And it doesn’t happen overnight, especially when they have invested so much in the previous decades. 

This is especially true for companies like Toyota and Honda who are especially tight with their suppliers, they don’t want to send them out of business. Heck, they may own a portion of their suppliers business. 

But Toyota, and to a certain extent Honda, are playing it smart. They are building hybrids with electric motors. Slowly understanding how these technologies work and to build them at scale. 

The RAV4 hybrid has electric AWD. Not mechanical. ELECTRIC!!!  The rear wheels are run by an electric motor. 

The CRV hybrid basically runs like an EV, but gets its electricity from the ICE engine. 

They are building the electric motors and batteries and slowly scaling to incorporate them to pure EV’s after this hybrid phase. Pretty clever if you ask me. They don’t have the luxury of starting like scratch like Tesla. And at the same time, how many EV companies that started from scratch already failed?! And a ton more will fail. And that’s okay. That’s how the market figures everything out.