[throwaway22032]

The question I haven't seen answered is how electric cars ever attain reasonable resale values.

The car I have owned and driven for years now cost me less than $1000, minimal maintenance, it's done 30,000 miles.

I don't think that a usable 100kWh lithium battery, alone, with no car attached, is ever going to depreciate to $1000 ($10 per kWh). As far as I know, the wholesale price of the metal itself is more than that.

The idea seems to be that loads of people just get priced out of driving entirely. So what happens to them? Are they all supposed to move out of all of the suburbs into urban housing that doesn't even exist yet?

It's not a matter of charging infrastructure, the viable replacement cars are going to cost 5x what they currently do as far as I can tell.