If no one ever electrified a car, I feel the world would be better off so people wouldn't be mislead thinking electric cars are a green solution to transit. Trains, busses, and bikes are the green solution.
It's all relative, EVs have the potential to be greener than their alternative, but actual public transit and non-powered transport are always going to be better where they are available.
It's all too easy to disregard "good" solutions because they are not "perfect".
Even when I lived in range of the local public transport, it's 1/hour frequency, limitations on baggage, and limited hours meant that I pretty much only used it as an alternative to walking back, since it was marginally faster, and climate controlled. It's miles better than nothing, but it still pales in comparison to access gained from the use of a personal vehicle.
I biked and bussed to work for years via a transit center which was lovely, but my new job is local and a bike was just plain unsafe. I almost was hit by an oblivious car or malicious truck (seriously I was a bicycle doing 10 over the speed limit, theres no need to blow a diesel cloud at me just so they know they are faster...) every single day.
Without separate bike lanes like I had doing a more normal commute to the city, hecken nope! I love my EV.
It's all too easy to disregard "good" solutions because they are not "perfect".
Even when I lived in range of the local public transport, it's 1/hour frequency, limitations on baggage, and limited hours meant that I pretty much only used it as an alternative to walking back, since it was marginally faster, and climate controlled. It's miles better than nothing, but it still pales in comparison to access gained from the use of a personal vehicle.