Owner says Tesla wouldn't charge in freezing weather, stranding him on Xmas Eve

My snarkiness aside, my wife has an identical car with a v6, her car gets around 25mpg combined, I get around 20ish, we can get similar numbers for highway driving though, the difference falls off some at speed.

Both of us have 2021 Chrysler 300's - mine with a Hemi and hers with the Pentastar V6.

In any case, I like my car because it's fun to drive, and it was the first time I've ever ordered a new car, so I got exactly the car I wanted. I expect it'll be the last ICE car I'll ever purchase, so I wanted it to be exactly what I wanted.

Also, I'm not just talking about tailpipes. EVs are better from a carbon perspective over the whole life of the car, including both manufacturing and use.

The only way to achieve our climate goals is to actually reduce carbon emissions. It's not necessary to eliminate private cars to do this. I think we should invest in plenty of other transit types that are proven to lower carbon emissions. But cars aren't going away and they don't need to.

It's a false choice between "reducing the need for cars" and "making cars more efficient". We can do both, but EVs are going to be a major part of reducing carbon emissions for personal transport.

Politicians, for the most part, fail to do anything well. This will be no exception. So how do they reach the goal?

Outlaw ICE vehicles.

Slowly but surely you will see less and less cars on the road. The income needed to own a car will go up. Any government incentives will be eaten by increasing prices (as happened with Ford not even a week after a rebate was announced.)

Just a guess of course.

Additionally, someone buying 4 or 5 new electric vehicles is not a problem. Unless they put the old car in a landfill, that will still replace 4 or 5 gas cars on the road as they are resold down the line. The carbon costs of producing them are already factored in!