Emission and safety standards were all mandated and there were exactly the same arguments and rationalizations at the time. Every vehicle we drive today is far better because of them. This time, the manufacturers are jumping on the band wagon, not bitching about it and pushing back.
There is no comparison between mandating seatbelts or catalytic converters and mandating a entirely different engine type that is useless without a massive investment in infrastructure (an investment that governments seem to be determine to block at every opportunity because of local opposition).
I agree that the big makers are in the best position to benefit from the switch. Tesla's production problems show that building large scale manufacturing capability from scratch is not easy to do.
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