It's going to be an awful long time before synthetic petrol gets anywhere near the cost per mile of BEVs, though. There's undoubtedly a role for it, but there's absolutely no reason why we need to have one single technology providing a solution for personal transport, especially as the technology is moving so fast.
We've already seen how the original projections of batteries wearing out and being impossible to recycle have been unfounded, and how charging times would never get to be quick enough to provide acceptable refuelling stops, or that charging points would never be available.
Look how far we've come in 5 years, there's no reason to think the rate of change won't accelerate even faster in the future as solutions get identified for the remaining problems.
