Electric cars have always seemed like moving deck chairs on the Titanic. They depend on the same energy infrastructure, transit paradigms, and global supply chains as regular cars, they just don't directly burn fossil fuels.
Electricity generation does not need to burn fossil fuels.
Right, of course. But I think the larger point still stands.
What is the larger point, then?
Not having the second half of the solution yet doesn't make the first half not a victory. Especially when the second half is making clear and rapid progress (rapid enough, probably not, but still...)