For some families a BEV makes sense. In your case, in your region it seems like it works decent. And thats good.

However, mandating and forcing the world to do something is not the way to accomplish the advances and improvements to the various systems, technology, processes and resources that are necessary to support a move like that.

Regardless of if all those things were mature enough to support it, forcing it is not the way. If it naturally and organically became a viable option for the masses that would be great.

Plus, here in america and other places as well I imagine, the companies responsible for such things DO NOT have the consumer's best interest in mind.

For example, have you heard of abiotic oil? Probably not but its a real thing that has been censored and suppressed so that the oil industries can maintain the facade that the resource will run out one day so that theyre free to manipulate the price and emotions to drive the market and politics surrounding it. Not to mention the military ops that have been based on one country controlling another's resource.

The idea that gas/oil are fossil fuels has been propogated to support more of the manufactured scarcity.

Some coal is fossil fuel, but what is bbq charcoal other than specially treated wood. There are people in other countries that male charcoal and sell it at markets to support their families. The energy density of that type of coal is different than power plant coal but the point stands that there is a difference between ff's and oil.

Coal power plants here in USA are some of the cleanest in the world but thats not good enough for this 'green' lobby, yet they are content to decommission nuclear plants and coal plants and remove hydro dams to push their agenda and to what end? More control more manufactured scarcity.

In the state of Georgia, USA, the first new nuclear plant in decades just went online April 1. It took 15 years to build. The first one in the state built back in the 1950's took 3 years to build. Its the greed and the agenda thats holding the general population back.

Thats not to say that we should not seek to improve the ICE, I believe in the tech strongly. Its viable and mature and can be improved tremendously. But again we run into the same roadblocks with the greed and agenda.

For example there was a gentleman that developed a carburetion system back in the 1980's that saw 70mpg! His voice was silenced and the information was censored and hidden.

How about gas/diesel turbochargers? Why did USA marques not use them when europe did? Using waste gas from the engine to improve the engine's pumping efficiency to more than 100% while lowering the emissions. Nope, USA said lets pump spent exhaust gasses back in to offset tailpipe emissions. We dont care that it drastically reduces the engines pumping efficiency but it makes it LOOK like weve done something good!

Good times create weak men and I think we're there again. USA has had a long period of prosperity but now weak men/communists have gained some control and we're feeling the effects.