Relevant quote:

I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

On War, by U.S General Smedley Butler (1933)

Phasing out decades of old cars is no small task, even the horse and buggy wasn’t phased out fully outside of Amish country until the late 60s early seventies in some areas. Even if they could get enough cars to fully replace that would still take quite a bit of time to ship over, that’s valuable cargo space that could be used for more pressing matters. Probably better and easier to just start spamming trolleys or something.

It appears that they are doing the first step, which is having electrification not relying on fossil fuels. As useful as it seems EVs may be for them, they are worthless if they can’t actually charge them. Hell they’d probably just end up using them as batteries to power homes and then they’d become dead weight until they have reliable source of energy.

I don’t think they have enough electricity to run hospitals properly, let alone charge EVs.