People still buy mechanical watches despite the fact that a solid state watch tuned to an atomic clock via gps is in every way better. In fact they pay a ton of money for the luxury of a worse device! But as a proportion of all clocks mechanical clocks are effectively non existent.
> a solid state watch tuned to an atomic clock via gps is in every way better.
It's not better in every way, or that's the only sort people would buy. It's better at timekeeping, but timekeeping isn't the only reason why people buy watches.
EV and non-EV cars both do, and the choice to have and own a "classic" non-EV {muscle car | spaceship fin styling | 1930s steam powered racing car, etc.} is similar to the choice to have a "classic" mechanic watch .. which would be the point made in the comment you replied to.
In the overall big picture of timekeeping and transportation the proportion of fully wooden complication watches and Mad Max interceptors would ideally be relatively low.
( but rolling coal will remain popular for some years to come )
And the thread overall is about EVs being drastically simpler machines give them an insurmountable long term advantage to the point that ICE will become anachronistic, and hybrids are even worse than ICE for their complexity. The environmental angle is a non-sequitur.
I would note that EVs are much more likely to have a minimal environmental impact over time as the requisite is electrical storage, not a specific way to store electricity. As electro magnetism is a fundamental property of the universe the ways we achieve that are limitless. Carbon based fuel is pretty much the only meaningful ICE option so there’s not much to improve on there beyond marginal efficiency gains. (I mean I guess we could use liquid fuels like oxygen and hydrogen but that seems unlikely). N.b,. Hydrogen fuel cells are still electric vehicles.
> I would note that EVs are much more likely to have a minimal environmental impact over time
That would be the ideal goal but we (globally) have good way to go yet.
> I mean I guess we could use liquid fuels like oxygen and hydrogen ..
Pragmatically it'd be hydrogen (maybe) in transport trucking on established routes (to minimise infrastructure) and green hydrogen products (ammonia | methanol) for bulk carrier distance transportation to generate central station power (in, say, European winters) for use in EV's.
There's no Engineering (civil | mechanical) upside to hydrogen liquid|gas in mass numbers of small personal vehicles - too slippery to handle with stringent safety requirements to avoid issues with a billion small deployments.
