> Climate change is a species-ending threat. Emissions caused by fossil fuels is a huge piece of that.

It's not a species-ending threat (at least, to humans). That said, the realistic outlook for global warming is bad enough.

EV is a technology in transition. It will get there. It's getting there. It's not "there" yet for every use case.

Why? A large part isn't because of the technology, it's about population density. The countries that pollute the most also happen to have sub-par public transportation networks. Range anxiety isn't an issue when the default option for most people is light rail.

The solution is likely going to come down to: 1. Urban planning. Car friendly zoning, building codes, minimum parking requirements, and other regulations are starting be reversed in the US. It's already happened across most of the EU.

2. Switch to low emissions electricity generation. Power plants are still the leading emitter, full stop.

3. EV adoption. My point above wasn't an argument against EVs as a technology, but a statement of fact that - as a technology in transition - it's not superior for all major use cases. This should change over the next couple of decades.

Because of modern consumerism, something that convincing everyone to replace one working car for a newly constructed one doesn’t solve. Quite the opposite really.

Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not the planet.

It is species-ending, but not for humans. And human-made climate change is far behind direct over-exploitation and habitat destruction due to sprawl and agriculture in terms of what things are actually killing species.