E-diesel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-diesel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-diesel) would save us the hassle of using crops for fuel, assuming we can use a

E-diesel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-diesel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-diesel) would save us the hassle of using crops for fuel, assuming we can use a clean energy source to produce it. But yes; batteries are nice and it's good that we spend resources developing new and better ones, and that we recycle the old ones for materials, but we have a large fossil-fuel-based infrastructure in place, and replacing/upgrading it will take at least half a century. We need something clean to keep that going in the mean time.