Read on through the piece, and it becomes clear that the switch from internal-combustion-engine vehicles to EVs may well end up being about social engineering as well as actual engineering, something that should not be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.

Lakhani quotes Thea Riofrancos, associate professor of political science at Providence College and lead author of the report that she referred to in the beginning of the article:

“We can either electrify the status quo to reach zero emissions, or the energy transition can be used as an opportunity to rethink our cities and the transportation sector so that it’s more environmentally and socially just, both in the US and globally.”

And what does that mean? Packing people into more-densely populated cities and moving them around in public transport, although the need for the latter will, of course, be reduced by the fact that these marvelous metropoles will be more “walkable.”

[This reveals just how much “climate change” activism is about power — and not in the energy sense. The demands of the climate-change lobby are intended to create shortage-crisis situations that will require central economic planning and a vast reduction of both personal choice and private property. That has been the goal of the environmental Left since at least Paul Ehrlich first published “The Population Bomb.” They don’t want EVs. They want submission to their control. — Ed]