To repeat what I have said before, electric cars are becoming the
the intended design for all cars has nothing to do with co2 emissions.
As the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell put it to their AGM in 2017 the
company has formed a group to study how Shell can exit the oil industry.
The reason given was that search and development of new oil fields
is no longer a financially viable business.
It can be noted that BP changed its motto to Beyond Petroleum.
The motor manufacturers must have been spoken to by the oil companies
because the small EV projects they already had suddenly two years
later resulted in a string of new EV announcements.

Re renewables I noticed at 7pm the other day that while the coal &
gas were the major power suppliers only about 6 % was wind.
By dividing the wind generation into the demand gave this result;
The implication from that is that any viable renewables would need
to be enlarged 16 times to make up what coal & gas were generating.
Already $billions have been spent, how much more is needed ?

Forget batteries, before you join that argument make sure you
understand the difference between MWatts and MWatt/Hrs.
Too many people shouting their heads off on TV and elsewhere do not
have that fundamental knowledge !
Then none of the battery backers explain where you get the power to recharge them.