Sure.
Drive up prices on rare earth metals and increase strip mining while increasing dependence on China for the dirty bits of refining ores.
That process still relies on cheap hydrocarbons.
There is no cheap hydrocarbons because of regulation and taxes and because demand keeps increasing because nuclear isn't being built out to accommodate growth.
So... All of this is doomed to fail when one of those links gets cut or fails.
Plus... Electric cars are fully externally controllable. I can run nearly any ICE with self-brewed hooch, biodiesel, or even wood gas. Can't do that with electric. I'll always bias my long term plans towards independance instead of increasing dependence on centralized systems.
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You aren't energy-independent with gasoline-powered vehicles. You have to fill up the tank. Or do you have an oil well in the backyard, or something.
And all cars are electronically-controlled. That isn't the differentiator between fossil or electro. They already were, back when I worked in powertrain, decades ago. They're just computers on wheels.
If you value independence then you should be looking into plug-in hybrids.
> I can run nearly any ICE with self-brewed hooch, biodiesel, or even wood gas.
You can’t switch fuels with different characteristics without modifying the engine, fuel injection system and/or causing long term damage.
It is much more efficient to run a generator and charge an EV instead, which doesn’t care about the source of the electrons.
Gasoline can be made from non-dinojuice sources. You can make it from plants - hemp is supposedly quite good for this. There's also GMO algae that excrete gasoline.
