Science fiction author and Scottish nationalist Charles Stross opines:
“I’m going to suggest that American automobile culture is fundamentally toxic and aggressively hegemonizing and evangelical towards other cultures, and needs to be heavily regulated and rolled back.”
Not to belabor the point, but while electric cars may help us address climate change, they still emit toxic substances (tires spewing microplastics into the environment, for example), and they also enable habitat destruction. Even when it comes to climate change, their carbon footprint is not zero.
(Why mention that Stross is a Scottish nationalist? Because that means he apparently hasn’t bought into the American mythos.)