The EV is vastly superior to the ICE machine with better performance, quieter, cleaner, way easier to maintain, no hoses or coolants or oil changes as well as the ability to recapture energy on braking. The battery tech will only improve and the 1,000 mile range with 5 minute charging is coming as is the solar-cell covered car that gives dozens of free miles per day. As for Lithium, this may be superseded or mined from an asteroid. Electromagnetic propulsion is the future.

Oil tankers spoiling the oceans and gas tankers driving to every corner of Earth will be replaced with wires and solar, orders of magnitude more efficient way to deliver energy.