The governments around the world are all in a lot of trouble, they have signed up to reduce fossil fuel emissions to net zero over the next 30 years. To achieve this they need everyone to buy an EV, at the same time, they need to shut every fossil fuel power generating plant.
Subsidies on EVs to encourage ownership will cost them money, replacing the energy generation and distribution network with solar, wind, wave, hydro and nuclear will cost them a lot more money. At the same time they will loose the income stream from taxes on fossil fuels.
The only way to get the figures to add up is to tax electricity heavily, anyone in favor of higher electric bills?
Another thing that they have overlooked is the petrochemical industry; for whom petrol and diesel are merely a by product of producing lubricants, plastics, fertilizers and etc. If you have any doubts about this, have a look around the room you are in, just about everything has been produced from oil. The paint on your walls, the varnish on the floor, the foam in your furniture, right down to the plastic keys on you computer keyboard. What impact will net zero have?
It`s nice being old, while I do worry about these issues, I won`t be about to have to find the solutions.
Bob