I just hate this line: "Since Americans have been promised a one-to-one substitute for their gas cars" Who did this? Who promised every single American that th

I just hate this line: "Since Americans have been promised a one-to-one substitute for their gas cars" Who did this? Who promised every single American that they can replace their gas car with an EV and have the exact same utility in every single aspect of their life with it? The author is literally making up their own narrative as they go.