You're right, the article makes a simplistic and greedy-sounding point. A better way to put it would be: electric vehicles are a good way to shift the roughly 3

You're right, the article makes a simplistic and greedy-sounding point. A better way to put it would be: electric vehicles are a good way to shift the roughly 30% of our energy consumption that is transportation from fossil fuels to renewable energy. We can do this by taking advantage of the electric grid infrastructure that's already there, which saves us some money (vs. for example building out a giant hydrogen supply network).