Electric cars are to a large extent, green washing. Another way for companies to make you want to get rid of the current thing you have in exchange for new thing.

The most efficient and cheap car to run is the one you already have.

I sat down and did the maths of a $/km travelled of my current car, versus the expected future life of a few new cars that marketing caused to twinkle in my eye.

They were all significantly more expensive to do the same amount of travel, given the same class of vehicle.

The great thing about electric cars is the fact that they store so much potential energy within their batteries. In cities with large apartment blocks, all it takes is a single fire in a single electric car to start a chain reaction for themral run away in a basement. A basement that will now be full of ludicrously toxic gases which will ride on waves of convection upwards to the apartments above.

Let us ignore the fact that a basement of a building is probably not really built to withstand a fire, and given the modern construction methodology of large structures, this would be a case of "jet fuel" - except "lithium fuel" really melting steel beams.

We are so woefully unprepared for the future as a species. It makes me glad my wife and I have chosen to not have children. I can't justify the suffering that would be imposed upon a new generation.