Fossil fuels will never ever go away so long as these jamokes show up. "On display in the factory’s modest reception area is the battery pack from the Koenigsegg Regera gas-electric hybrid supercar. This brick of circuitry is, Rimac claims, the highest power-density battery of its kind, capable of discharging at 500 kilowatts—about the output of a Dodge Hellcat at full honk—from a box weighing 143 pounds, about the size and shape of a sofa cushion. -WSJ
Marc Andreessen once pronounced "software changes everything" and it does. He left something out. Materials engineering. Without the materials to build CPU's for software to run on it's meaningless. Materials engineering is the base of everything, the key,impetus of paradigm shifts of human behavior, reorganization. For electric transport this requires advances in battery tech. Research is rapidly progressing. By 2030 1,000 mile range in elec. cars is easily not a fantasy.
Moreover, it is not only electric transport that has prospects. I would add hydrogen engines. If it wasn't for the pressure from the main oil producers, it would also be a reality.
The problem with a hydrogen fuel cell is that if it explodes it takes out a city block... I'm thinking that the engineering to make that tech safe just isn't here yet.