Even in Kyoto

I do remember you doing a lot of investigating and thinking when your Subaru got too old, and from what I've seen so far of my brother's experience with long-ish distances in their electric vehicle (forget what it is but a different manufacturer) - it does seem like other manufacturers aren't there yet in the USA. It was also interesting to learn about some of the decisions the Chinese have made with regard to charging management (battery swaps instead of charging stations, which introduces a different set of constraints).

For my own lifestyle for the time being I had to figure that a used combustion engine vehicle would have a smaller net footprint than a newly manufactured or even used hybrid or electric.

Honestly, at the end of the day it's all kind of bad calculus in my book, because for me it would be preferable to just be less auto-dependent altogether...but I do realize that that isn't especially practical for reaching places like SAR sites in an expedient fashion, of course. :^)