A crucial part of the solution to the supposed climate crisis is supposedly electric vehicles. And to help us all not succumb to our own vulgar selfish stupidity, governments in the industrialized world are, or until very recently were, determined to make it illegal for us to buy the reliable “ICE” (Internal Combustion Engine) kind instead, even if we could still afford gas. As Matthew Lynne argued in The Telegraph, “The West’s humiliating electric car climbdown has begun/ Ambitious plans for an electrification-led industrial revolution are in full-scale retreat”.