Comments below as well as the article noting that improvements are needed matches up with technology evolution in play. The more EV, the more investments, the better the performance. Note the article focus is on pollution. A major benefit of EV is to reduce oil demand, which reduces oil profits used for Middle East terror and renders Iran block of oil passage not an issue and therefore avoids yet another $2 Trillion war in the Middle East. It also removes profits from Russia's new cold war spending.