Electric cars in current times are "new". Ah, now then, think back? Go back to the early days of cars? Just imagine trying to shove people in to using cars instead of horses? The cars then were.... shall I say a bit primitive and a bit unreliable? They made haste slowly?

The same goes for aircraft? Much air travel was "a bit primitive" in the early days? They also made haste slowly?

The push to impractical electric cars is being done with inordinate haste!

As to "the environment", just how much impact does the making of the "new batteries" etc plus the actual electricity generation make on the environment? OK, so loads of coal-fired power stations have been decommissioned but how many are natural gas? What about the impact the huge, horrible looking, bulgy and bulky 4 x 4s have on th environment? There's no real need for them?

While we're on the subject of reducing the impact vehicles make, has no-one considered the impact closing all the village schools has made by transporting all the kids miles endways to large schools in towns?

REAL progress would be water powered cars. Water is Hydrogen and Oxygen so develop practical water engines eh? Although I've said it before, can't you just see that if practical water engines were developed, there'd soon be some law or other making sure people couldn't use any old water, it'd have to be "Government Water" ie taxed!