So we should impoverish our selves and expend all the wealth we have for a world that is unable or unwilling to do it themselves? It is too expensive for the masses. What we are going to do is make it so the masses in the US have to buy used cars or if we mandate it, the less well off will have to move outside areas that mandate electrics.And "we" are supposed to be making 'the example' for others to follow..
I see the whole thing as hypocritical. I don't get how the elite jet around the globe but celebrate how they drive an electric car. If you are going to live the life, live it as a whole and not just when it is convenient. I drive a hybrid and might buy an electric, but I personally do not thing we should force our population to accept it. You have to make the technology the right way to go and affordable.
We are handcuffing the Western economies. This will not end well.