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This is a straw man. Nobody's claiming EVs don't have downsides. However, the downside of fossil fuels is that they're destroying our biosphere, and the downside of hydrogen is that it's physically infeasible.

By all means, forego a car entirely and ride a bike if you can get away with it.

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Majority of consumers dont really care fossil fuel destroying the biosphere. They care only affordability. The vast majority car purchases are non-EV...and maybe at best hybrid. Currently EVs sales have stagnant and Tesla had to subsidized it partially via 7K credit and free charge. I dont see as a way going forward unless Tesla type of car can drop to under 10K in 2nd hand market and motorshop repair able to service it. Toyota still outsell and outvolume Tesla by several fold and still growing with recalls near miniscule unlike how many times Tesla doing recalls this year alone.

Biosphere destruction is not something that can be ignored forever, prioritizing consumer's preferences is not a feasible strategy. Eventually all the finance talk will be replaced with practical environmental strategy, even if it means some of the middle class is inconvenienced.

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