Talk about "not following what's going on".
GM just announced plans for 20 EV models by 2023 or, as Wired headline said, "an All-Electric Future". The other major car makers are going the same route.
Falling costs of renewable energy technologies could lead to a halt in the growth of global demand for environmentally harmful fossil fuels.
A recent report co-authored by the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London and the UK-based think-tank Carbon Tracker Initiative, concluded that: "cheaper electric vehicles and solar technology, and their increasing use globally, could stop growth in demand for oil and coal by 2020."
In this case, build it, and they won't come.
Try and keep up with the 21st century.