I made this same point on an article about "where will apartment dwellers and city dwellers with street parking charge their EVs". https://news.ycombinator.com

I made this same point on an article about "where will apartment dwellers and city dwellers with street parking charge their EVs". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20678842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20678842 It was a question that was completely missing the forest for the trees. Just like this article is claiming all the EV boosterism is doing. An EV car is still a car. It's still three tons of steel that goes way too fast and gets used in all manner of inappropriate ways. As an EV owner, you are still part of the problem. Not to mention that you just bought a fantastically expensive vehicle to signal how much you "care" about the environment, but not enough to give up any creature comforts. And how many anti-malaria bednets could you have bought instead if you got a used fuel efficient ICE or, gasp, no car at all? Much higher impact would be accelerating retrofitting our cities and towns for other modes of transportation: bikes and scooters, massively expanded public transit, and walking.