The trend is to talk and believe that electric vehicles are the future. That might be so, but what would really help is a dramatic change in the way cars are made.
It would be more convincing to look for alternative materials to replace Steel and make vehicles much lighter. That should be a primary goal for all involved in the automotive industry. I guess there is an unwillingness to change when the infrastructure has been in place for many, many years and then its down to finances, once more. In my opinion vehicles today are in general far to complex and heavy and in the not to distant future destined to become dinosaurs.