AND environmentalism....
I don’t think that all those chemical-filled batteries are going to do much for the “environment.” And, the batteries still need to be charged. If the car is operated in the US, chances are better than even that we’ll be burning coal to charge his batteries, so that every five years we can add another dozen, or so, batteries to a landfill.
The left are much less about “environmentalism” than they are about control.