Electric vehicles are ranking number 26 in terms of total cost and total atmospheric reduction of CO2:

https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

So its not a talisman, but it is certainly a real step in the right direction. I don't hear anybody saying that electric cars means we can just forget about the other causes of climate change?

A very contrarian article that just argues against a straw man. I suspect people who write articles like this are usually the ones who revel in being smarter than everybody else.