The other thing is, while there's 'incentive' for EVs, the actual 'incentive' is to start production of additional hybrids. The writing is on the wall for EVs - they're seeing a surge right now but the demand and infrastructure does not exist for them anywhere else outside specific consumer groups within the first world, and they're already reaching a saturation point. A gas engine is in demand in every country, forever.
So much of everything progressive is ignorant of non-first world countries.
I don't think I've ever heard or read anything that accounts for cars in the third world with the push to go all-electric. As I understand it. The second-hand car market from Western countries moves into shipping cars to the third world pretty quickly. There's a reason it is uncommon to see typical everyday cars that are older than 15 years. May vary by place.
It's part of the hand me down from the first world to the third.
So as we all go electric, petrol cars will be handed down to the third world. Then what happens when it reaches the point in the cycle that there are only electric cars to hand down? As far as I am aware, they aren't even designed to be handed down. They become obsolete.
Will western car manufactures just hand the automotive industry in the third world to China? Will western car companies still make petrol cars, but only for certain regions? Probably under other brands.
There's also a utility for petrol engine cars because they can be endlessly repaired. Will the third world become like Cuba running cars that are really old?
I don't even think they've solved the cold climate issue with electric cars.
I wonder if this is one of those issues where we're told a story. Electric, go green. To push us all there. Yet we're to ignore others. Or while we're being pushed into more expensive electric cars. They're relying on some green bio fuel for poorer countries or hoping something like that happens. Or else they're left out on the cold.
Just typing this, there's so many endless issues and I am pro electric cars. If it made financial sense, I'd buy a Tesla for my next car.
Yet if western countries struggle to roll out charging stations, how will Africa or South America go? I've been in extremely remote places in those continents. You can just fill up. Will we have tanker trucks of electricity? Will each charging place need enough solar planets and wind turbines to charge batteries?