While the power source that generated the electricity is not necessarily sustainable, power plants should have more at scale Features to limit the pollutants than a traditional petrol engine.

Or at least the power plants should if one lives in a civilized society....

The problem with EVs is that in almost all ways other than local pollution they are just as bad as ICE vehicles. They

• need massive amounts of asphalted space for roadways and parking
• use this space very inefficiently and cause traffic congestion at any given spike in traffic
• drive urban sprawl and thus make housing less sustainable (more sewage,water supply, electric supply, heating, roads/person required)
• urban sprawl stretches everything far apart and makes public transit much less feasible so people who can't drive cars struggle to get places, for example kids can't walk to school or take public transit, instead must be driven
• are loud (because tyres rolling is the driving source of noise)
• are dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists
• their dangers and tendency to cause traffic congestion inhibit other, more efficient and sustainable modes of transport so that when not regulated properly, they take over all of the streetscape as is evident in most western places

I'd say long term, neither of those should be problems

The electricity it uses is not sustainable.

Many EV users also go for solar panels to alleviate energy costs. Also as a country's electrical grid modernises, it should make use of a greater share of renewables given they're cheaper than the alternatives now.

It has lots of tracking etc and in some cases remote control.

Slightly less certain, but I'd hope this kind of thing is legislated away at some point. There's also always customer choice, there will be manufacturers that compete on the privacy angle if enough of us care

The main problem with EVs is it doesn't solve any of the problems inherent to cars being treated as the main mode of transportation in a given area. Places like that will see EVs as the solution compared to an alternative of investing into better public transit infrastructure.

Infrastructure that is basically inevitable, since we know now that any town/city that eschews anything but car transit will ultimately bankrupt themselves on road maintenance alone.

I would suggest different downsizes:

• EVs are much heavies, and they wear down the road, and everything else
• tire particles are going to be the next problem after fossil fuels

Solution: trains, more trains, even more trains.

threeish years apparently, given you run it on green electricity.

My old petrol car consumes 4.5L/100km. New Hybrid EVs consume 4.5L/100km because it takes a lot to move the heavy hybrid system.

Solution: I use public transport a lot unless I can't. That's my hybrid mode of transport.