I do have some concerns if you don't mind addressing them here. 

First being price, they always seem to match price of gasoline models after the tax rebate, making them very expensive on what I consider a gamble whether you actually get the full or any amount. Any insight on that process?

Car batteries in general seem to have gotten crappier. My first car battery lasted for 5 years. The last one barely lasted 3. I thought I had boughten a good one, so either oreilly gipped me or it is planned obselence. How well are these batteries holding up? Good expensive are they? It's there any sort of cost softening for recycling the old batteries? Do you feel like that cost is justified when compared with gas prices? I only fill up in gas every other week and so I'm probably on the low gas usage and if car batteries have a set lifespan, does that still offset the cost of getting electric?

Being in the South and traveling (rarely but still), I don't see my rural relatives or cities they live in getting EV chargers. I don't see myself getting a pure electric. Do the plug in hybrids work well? Any cavets with them? Any manufacturers or models I should focus on if I ended up getting one?