Hybrid truck recharges from overhead wires in Germany - GIF

[Frank S]

I see the grid charged electric vehicles as merely a transitional phase in the next evolution of personal and commercial transportation. At least in the cesspools called cities. Which may even not be as long lived as people may think. Smaller tighter cities within these large cities will eventually come into being if several governments around the world have anything to do with it. The 15 minute cities seem to be on the rise where everyone lives within 15 minutes of their work.

There's no question that electric vehicle propulsion is probably here to stay, until a new source of energy is discovered. What that may be is only in the minds of Sci fi authors right now.
What I don't believe though, is the electric vehicles will primarialy receive their recharge from the grid. Currently the options to recharge them are limited three's wind but probably only if you live in remote rule areas and if the wind even blows. there's solar of course. the efferences of solar PV has greatly improved in that past several years but still probably less than 20% but you need quite a large area of coverage And apartment dweller in a high rise can forget that but most probably should be using public transportation anyway. Last is hybrid powered. Many manufactures are going to them and some going back to them but again as you said these currently require either fossil fuels or agriculturally produced which winds up taxing the already depleted soils requiring them to be heavily fertilized. most of the chemicals of which comes from petroleum. Methane capture form land fills could partially supplement as a fuel source for the hybrid vehicles . The Germans have been capturing and burring methane from land fills for 50 years. Or there is hydrogen, Hydrogen is actually not a bad way to go. it can be produced from many sources but currently methods of production consumes nearly as much energy as it can produce. Excepting from natural gas. elemental hydrogen is an energy carrier when burned it produces water

For long haul freight transportation a company in Canada i think. Makes something they call Edison trucks 'google them'. they are an electric powered truck with a diesel generator have reign. braking and a battery.
If anyone can successfully create brown's gas 'google it' without it requiring more energy to make than it produces then that could be an alternative.