You see? LEDs was one technology that did not need government intervention to do that oft-used 'paradigm shift' thingy on its own merits.
Could you please make me a believer about what "lifestyle changes...eliminating wasteful consumption" has a direct relationship to "fossil fuel usage" but vis-a-vis in comparison to "electric vehicles' need for other energy sources"?
How is "fossil fuels" any worse than any other extraction of raw material for 8 billion humans who have needs for energy, but only when each is NOT driven by possible financial gains or fads?
Unless you are a firm believer in throwing the baby out with the bathwater or trying to tell me that there is no way to extract energy from 'fossil' fuels in environmentally safe methods.
I believe a proven and established technology as 'fossil fuel energy extraction' can be made safeR and cheapER, without abandonment of it - just to venture forth to the future with reckless abandon about a (currently, unsustainable) tech that is guaranteed to cause mayhem if not for the environment but also for territorial confrontations around the world.
...as if OPEC does not do that already but managed.
Ask google how much of the metals needed for EVs are 'extracted' using coal and smile.