Which tells you there's another reason for the push.
Pretty simple: further consolidate means of transportation in the hands of the few
With a combustion engine you can get 50 miles with a couple gallons of liquid fuel. With EVs, you need massive batteries and a nation-wide electric infrastructure to transfer the power into that battery that can then be used to power the car.
Makes the citizenry more reliant upon "the higher ups" to get from point A to point B.
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