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Good. Electric cars are a completely unsustainable scam. It's absurd that people are being subsidized for their privileged and wasteful lifestyles. It's gross and it's completely unfair to people who actually want to reverse the climate catastrophe.
End car dependency, rebuild sustainable infrastructure, and give people credits for light EVs instead. For every electric car we could build like 1000 electric bikes. I could get a super nice e-bike for $7500.
Ban cars.
Build more mass transit in outlying areas, but also there are reasons for personal car ownership. My partner uses her personal car to do home health, for example. That is not possible with transit or on a bike. Plus it rains almost 9 months out of the year here, and good rain gear is spendy. I love e-bikes and transit, but electric cars have their place. There is not one solution.