It's not facially absurd,maybe the math won't pan out but humanity needs to get off fossil fuels or face an uninhabitable earth.
You might be right, but EVs are not the solution. The solution is realising that we just can't use so much energy.
Of course we need to move from burning coal too, but EVs are absolutely part of that.
Obviously, we want our EVs powered from renewable energy. In that case, unless we go nuclear, in my opinion energy will become that much more expensive that using it to transport ourselves in massive, heavy wheeled metal boxes will be out of the question.
I'm sure you'll object to this, so I'll start by pointing out that most of our "renewable" energy sources are made in China using brown coal and awful working conditions.
88 mpg equivalent for an EV, that requires a huge amount of extra mineral resources and manufacturing energy, is not good enough when the average clapped-out diesel family car here in the UK gets around 60mpg. As I said, they are barely more efficient overall.