If we had made laws 20 years ago, forbidding combustion engines by 2019, I'm convinced we would have all been driving electric cars by now. The problem electric

If we had made laws 20 years ago, forbidding combustion engines by 2019, I'm convinced we would have all been driving electric cars by now. The problem electric cars had in the past, that Tesla was the first to overcome, was range. So, we would have driven electric cars that were slightly less convenient than combustion cars, which would have been very tolerable and likely would have helped a great deal with our huge carbon emission. The problem with your line of reasoning is that you seem to pre-suppose that the market has to solve every problem, even the ones that the market created.