Cost of Driving an EV

A horse is the propulsion unit for a buggy. The term used to describe the first motor car was a horseless carriage. Steam was also a method of propulsion. When people were given the choice they chose the gas engine as it improved with technology over time. Steam and horses both fell out of favor. We are seeing the same thing today. you can make an argument for which is better at this moment or in the past but it seems that momentum is in favor of the ev. With advances in technology and people getting more accustomed to the idea of ev . more people are choosing ev. if people become dissatisfied with their ev then they won't buy them anymore unless or until they are improved to there satisfaction. Car companys are aware of this trend and are hedging their bets on ev. That said they are not always spot on in their vision for the future.
Your horse comparison doesn't work, no matter how many examples you try to show. If we didn't have a road system, it may work, but that was 100+ years ago that any comparison would be valid.
What we are talking about is changing the propulsion mode of the automobile, not how we transport people and goods. Electric may be the future, but it is coming faster than the actual demand for it is growing. It is being forced as the new normal before being normal. In Minnesota, we sell 2,000 electric vehicles a year, but will be mandated to have 19,000 of them sitting on dealer lots in 2024. That will increase the cost of every IC vehicle on the lots to cover the money the dealer pays for those ev's that aren't being sold. It will also increase the cost of used vehicles, much the same way the chip shortage is raising new and used car pricing. Demand isn't there yet. Even in the bluest of blue states where they sell many more. I know Chicago has a ton of them, but they are a city of 2.8M people, so the greater numbers are to be expected.

What is the total percentage of EV's on the road today? Please show me those numbers, it will show how far off the demand is for these cars.

And if the younger people in urban areas don't want to even buy a car, that reduces the demand even more.