Until you can solve the problem of distance and ability to charge in places like Australia ( or Siberia for that matter) fuel/fuelable vehiclesare going to have to exist. Once you get even a short distance( Australian short distance, not high density country short distance) there is nowhere to recharge . I lived in a place where the next large town was 350km in one direction, 390 in the opposite direction and 1000km to the west. In Western Australia there is a section of the main highway that has a inter fuel stop distance of 400km with absolutely NOTHING in between.
EV's make complete sense in towns and cities. Noone could argue that. But the majority of the world ( not people, actual world...) ISN'T in towns and cities. To go to the other side of town ( I live 8km outside town), and back is 80km round trip, with a large amount of 100kph road. Pretty much stuff all emotorcycles currently are suitable.
No I am not naive enough to think that anybody will give a stuff about anybody except those in cities. EV's are being mandated as the ONLY vehicles, meaning the rural areas will slowly become no go zones and even more disadvantaged than now.
In this country, most tourism is private motorvehicle. If you think the pandemic has hit the tourist industry hard, wait til there is only EV's.
