Natural gas puts out 55% less carbon dioxide per unit of energy than coal or oil does.
40% of electricity is from renewables, nuclear, etc, and that is increasing at a rate of 3% per year.
Electric cars can charge at earlier in the day than peak energy usage, meaning they don’t even create a need for increased generating capacity; There’s just as much sunlight at 9AM when A/C needs are minimal as there is at 3PM wehn A/C needs peak.
There’s enough lithium for 400 billion cars with current technology levels, and it is not consumed by battery usage: when your battery needs replacement, the lithium can be recycled, if the scarcity of lithium is ever great enough to make recyclable profitable.
New Mexico alone could generate the solar power to power the entire Earth, and the efficiency of gathering that solar power is likely to grow at a faster rate than the global economy for many decades.
You’d think New Mexico and the desert states would catch on.