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Agreed. Also, electric vehicles are also much simpler mechanically speaking. They have fewer moving parts that can break relative to a modern gas engine. In-wheel electric motors wouldn't need a drive train, and would mean more room for other military stuff in vehicles.
Fueling is also much less volatile and you can gain that electricity with cleaner means and cheaper fuels, ideally nuclear.
If they had to do an emergency airlift supply drop, I wonder if they'd prefer dropping a massive battery vs a pile of gasoline. Although the battery would be more expensive I guess. Like airdrop a Tesla Megapack.
Also that'd be bad if a enemy overran them and then took that asset, so probably bad idea heh