It wouldn't be able to function as an electric car at all without a battery. Think of the battery as the EV version of the gas tank. It has to have somewhere to store its energy.
The amount of people who can't realize this is satire from the (Let's hop into a 5 min call) alone is insane. Like bruh I'm literally autistic and have trouble with telling when things are a joke and even I realized.
Or....you could actually try taking interest in what your partner likes. My girlfriend and I have shared many things with each other that the other hadn't engaged in before. And wow turns out we both like a lot of those things. Sure not everything is a hit, but at least try.
Driving under the influence is knowingly putting yourself and everyone else around you at risk of injury or death. I can't blame employers for not wanting to keep someone like that. It's not like an employee smoking a blunt or something in their off time.
While absolutely fucked it's being used for this, your game being so realistic that it can be used to create actual war propaganda is pretty impressive.
Given the sheer amount of times extremely rare and expensive collectibles/art was discovered to be in someone's storage, completely forgotten, I'm not surprised.
In lore it says humans and Pokemon used to be indistinguishable. So probably yeah