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I just want to point out one thing.
It's pretty difficult to on one hand be like "we should all adopt electric cars" and on the other hand also be "against the state or private entities tracking the citizenry". If you don't know that all the new cars including the new electric vehicles are spying on their occupants you haven't been paying attention.
On top of that a lot of Americans are realizing they can't afford a vehicle at all. The subsidies for buying a new electric vehicle have gone up in smoke. So people who already can't afford a vehicle aren't gonna be able to buy an EV without the tax credits.
Combine the two problems and you're just not going to get the results you want.
You might be able to sell me on a dumb electric vehicle. No manufacturer is selling that in the US, and even if they did try, the safety features required by law make it basically an impossibility.