First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

There are a lot of interesting aspects to electric-only cars, especially from a manufacturing aspect. There are lots of parts that you just don't need in an electric car, which can lead to efficiencies of mass production. Now that electric cars are no longer either improbably futuristic nor merely the butt of jokes a lot of people are finding it easier to have an electric car be a part of their lives, and that's a pretty big deal. I don't know how things will go, but it'll be nice to get a lot more R&D into electric vehicles for a while.