I genuinely appreciate your perspective. So I'm only responding here because it happens to be where I had the thought, again.

Mindset matters a lot on this subject.

Obviously we need motor vehicles. They even have then in Europe!

However, people have latched on to the EV as both savior and solution. It is neither. It's still a car. And it has the same impact on our built environment as any car. From a pollution or climate change perspective, that's up for debate. And it's not something I know enough about.

But I do know that when something becomes both savior and solution and people turn into zealots around it, we lose sight of the real problem and how to meaningfully fix them.

If everyone drove an EV and we had the same number, or even marginally fewer, cars on the road we still lose from a quality of life perspective as it relates to the built environment, urban planning matters.

So, clearly, we need cars. And we need choice on the number of transport choices and physical settings for living. But we also need a mindset and culture shift. EVs don't help with this; they only help to preserve a significantly bad part of the status quo.