Anyone notice all the folks walking away from jobs (and facing no UI, BTW)? How will EV markets be after folks are poorer, less jobs and the markets are saturated? Folks are already way over their head in debt and I'm not seeing this improve.
What's the end goal? Replacing ICE with EV ain't it. Perpetual growth on a finite planet isn't possible. "Efficiency" just means a resource is more readily exploitable: See Jevons' Paradox. Pay attention to my note above about the lifespans of dams: I'm in hydro-electric country; ain't going to last forever, and when they reach end of life I doubt anyone is going to be thinking of Elon (or his offspring).
I'd argued against local exuberance with the introduction of a rail station. Folks aren't smart enough to realize that they were subsidizing commutes to/from a larger city (and businesses there). I had suggested tax rebates to companies hiring local people- reducing commuting. Swapping ICEs with EVs doesn't do anything to change the commuting equation. Further, brown-outs from increased electrical loads is a negative which few are want to mention: as has been stated several times in this thread: we need to address the power grid before trying to saturate our roads with EVs (and NO, I don't believe this can be solved by rooftop PVs/solar, not in MY world).
And yes, I fully understand pollution issues: I've been to Manila enough times to understand that lots of ICEs in a city is a bad thing, especially my beloved diesel ICEs! We're shifting/ignoring other environmental issues such as lithium mining: Elon thought nothing of the US promoting coops against other nations' governments in order to achieve better access to resources. If you turn your head away, if you close your eyes, if you plug your ears then all is going to be just great!
I live in an area where there's about a 70/30 mix of diesel pickups to EVs (or so it seems): the amount of money rolling down my roadways is insane- horse people with vehicles and horses likely closing in on the $500 million mark. My wife's son (not around here) has a Tesla. I'm not ignorant of any of this. I further refuse to push "solutions:" anyone doing so is, I am certain, unable to clearly identify an end goal (perhaps in a hazy way, one laden with marketing rhetoric- humans are great at deception, it's a built-in from nature). NOTE: I totally destroyed an entire panel, in public, over "bio-fuels"- so much so that panelists, who were looking to profit off their obvious marketing efforts, wondered who I was working for- no one, just one person who was tired of marketing hype that would only lead to continued ignorance of how the world actually works.
DISCLAIMER: Like I need to note it... I am reliant upon diesel. My cars are cheap and fully depreciated and can attain upwards of 800 miles on a tank (I'd been averaging just over 800 miles per tank through the end of summer- looks like I'll rack up another one on this tank). No monthly car payments. Low insurance rates. No threat to my electrical loads: my electrical service is a low-budget rural one: 100 amps; I'd have to shell out a ton to bump it up- it's an underground service feed, under a roadway). I commuted by bicycle for five years: when I'd lived close to work- I'm about ready to retire, so commuting will end, after which it would be cost-ineffective to shell out for an expensive new vehicle that's making everyone else feel better about being "green")