I don't know where we're at currently with electric technology, but one of the biggest problems with this for years has been feasibility. We already have an energy crisis in many parts of the world; injecting another thing we have to charge with electricity to use is only going to make the problems worse.
Hydrogen is an interesting alternative, but there are few if any fueling stations in most parts of the United States.
I'm all for taking bold steps to address the problem of oil/gas, so long as those steps don't make something else worse.
There
isn't an energy crisis though.
Granted, there's an infrastructure and planning crisis (see Australia) due to poor planning and conservative/fossil fuel interference when the country was trying to switch to renewable energy--and Elon Musk has offered a solution that, while it won't resolve things completely, is a very viable, functional, and expedient workaround.
There's also the Gaza 'crisis', which is more (say, 55-60%) because of Israeli interference in Gaza being able to obtain fuel and less of Gaza mismanagement (40-45%). But even then, Gaza only fired up their plant for ~4-6 hours a day, and wasn't on 24/7.
Then there's Texas, which is an exercise in conservative political cronyism and how it fails the people time and again. Texas has one of the worst infrastructures of all of the states (save Alaska and Hawaii), and it *STILL* doesn't have enough redundancy in the state electrical grid to fall back onto neighboring states (e.g. Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico) for backup power. This is despite the Federal Government telling Texas this for decades and Texas ignoring the reports because...reasons.
This is why Texas went all third-world years ago (energy-wise--they went third world politically decades ago) and had rolling brownouts/blackouts, and whenever there's a stretch of 100+ degree weather (read: common Texas summers), the dreaded discussion re: brownouts/blackouts comes up. The only saving grace is that non-fossil fuel tainted investors started investing heavily in wind and solar in Texas (lots of solar/wind farms in Texas now, with lots more to come) to the point where the Kw/h price of wind is now cheaper than fossil fuels, which drives more demand for renewable, which is driving more investment, which drives the price down, so on. But unless redundancies are built into the electrical grid in Texas, we'll see another brownout/b******* scenario again soon--it's inevitable.
TL;dr version: it's not an
energy crisis, it's a lack of infrastructure planning crisis.
