Usually the people making the policies aren't the same people who move the stuff "out of sight". > And both batteries and electricity production come with a hu

Usually the people making the policies aren't the same people who move the stuff "out of sight". > And both batteries and electricity production come with a huge environmental impact. Batteries are compact, valuable objects that are used for years, then can be used in stationary applications for a few more years (so what if it has only 70% capacity - still plenty enough to serve as a network balancing battery) and then recycled. And "environmental impact" of electric energy is several times lower than it could be if we used internal combustion engines for everything instead of centralizing them. ICE in cars have about 20-30% efficiency. Electric engines are over 90% efficient and big turbines in fossil-fuel based powerplants achieve 50-60% efficiency. If we use the same amount of oil to drive a powerplant and then drive a car on that energy - it would drive almost twice as far as if you just used it to power a normal ICE car.