Dunno about 1-3 lifetimes for the transition. I’ve seen multiple major industries do enormous pivots in just a few years.
Typewriters -> personal/laptop computers
Letters & fax -> email
Film cameras -> digital cameras
Wired phones -> wireless pocket supercomputers
HUGE shifts in public activities.
Yes, the shift should not be forced via gov’t. Let it happen naturally - and it _will_ happen, and it will do so with startling speed.
I’ve heard comparable complaints levied at all those changes above. “Digital will never have the resolution/color-depth of film.” “You can’t fill out preprinted forms on computers.” “Nothing official could ever happen via email.” “Phones could never get pocket sized, the batteries & transmitter would be too big.” All driven by businesses “too big to fail”. But then early adopters go “holy $#!^ this stuff is amazing” and everybody else catches on, with the entire market pivoting within 5 years.
Nothing wrong with electric vehicles for those who want them. There’s even a legitimate case to be made that they should be mandatory in dense urban areas.
But, Teslas in competition with other cars IN THE SAME PRICE RANGE, have little to recommend them aside from virtue signaling or special urban need. Vehicles in the $70k-$140 range are all stunning.
Even the much slower and cheaper Model 3 Tesla at a typical $45k is in the sweet spot for ‘sports sedans’ by everyone from the Alfa-Romeo Giulia to Volvo S60 T6.