[XutvJet]

EVs are not the automotive "future", they are part of the future.

Putting all your brown eggs in one basket and throwing out the existing white eggs makes absolutely no sense and government officials that have implemented these EV mandates will learn that it is just not feasible or realistic for the general public to only have EVs.

Like others noted, the cost of long-term ownership of an EV is potentially immense. Low and medium income households that will be forced to drive 10+ y/o EVs because of a new or lightly used EV cost cannot afford a five figure battery replacement or motor replacement repair that will likely come about at the 8-10 year mark. And that too is the biggest maintenance issue with EVs, the power source and motor aren't really serviceable. That's a big problem.

In addition to EVs, the future needs to be improved ICE efficiency (not necessarily more power; basic cars are getting plenty powerful now), more efficient gas/electric hybrid drivetrains, and alternate fuels for ICE motors like hydrogen cell, etc. There is plenty of technology out there now to to improve ICE efficiency. It terms of emissions, ICE motors are extremely clean now. The real efficiency focus needs to be on light trucks and SUVs. They have escaped efficiency focus for too long now.

And yeah, as someone pointed out, lithium and other battery element mining is a total environmental disaster. I'm an environmental consultant with almost 25 years of professional environmental investigation, remediation, litigation, and compliance experience for all types of sites across the globe. The way these materials are mined and solutioned out is environmentally damaging, water and energy intenisive, and downright dangerous from a human exposure consideration. I promise you that you'd not want to live within 20 miles of one of these mines.

Reduce, reuse, recycle, and improve efficiency need to be the focus and not just "let's end ICE motors".

And finally, to hell with LA and their stronghold on Federal air emissions regulations. It's their damn fault for overdeveloping a low-land desert area smack dab between mountain ranges on all sides that hold in air contaminates. The rest of us should not have to pay for their problems.