Quite agree, we can’t go on burning fossil fuels like we are and like we have been, not just that but often in such a wasteful way, who needs a ridiculous big 4x4 that does 7mpg, to drive one child to school everyday in a 1st would country ?
Fine as a toy weekend for a blast, but why not get a economical daily driver, a small VW car can do 80-90 mpg, even something like that multiplied would probably make more a difference, but things like that are just the tip of a very big ice burg, we are simply far to wasteful with fossil fuels
The main issue though is we are addicted to oil, we are awash with it, it’s cheap, $30 a barrel last time I looked
And far to many vested intrests tied up with oil and keeping the consumer using it.
But these electric cars arnt some silver bullet some people would have us believe, at the present time a hybrid makes more sense and would be a better option,small ultra efficient ice engine supplying the electrical energy.
Remember unless an electric car is charged up from renewables, it’s still burning up fossil fuels, so why not burn it where it’s needed and most efficient? In the vehicle.
But by far the simplest and easiest solution,- maybe as a short term solution whilst we work out the electric vehicle flaws or something else - is to make what we have I.e the internal combustion engine much more efficient and the vehicles lighter - you can already buy family cars with small turbo charged engines that will do 100mpg - with the will or demand from consumer that could easily be improved upon by the established manufacturers and the efficiency would filter up to bigger vehicles in the range.
No change of infrastructure needed, no expensive electricity grid updating or charging infrastructure needed, simply changes like that could be with us in no time and certainly quickly than waiting for a electric vehicle that is as practical/convenient is an ice vehicle is today.
Just my opinion of course