Alternative energy startup? Whatever you say.

Look, the problem with all of the EV vs ICE studies is that the numbers for EVs change faster than than the time it takes to create the study.

Polestar does a report EV vs ICE... which assumes a standard grid-based energy mix from which their carbon figures are derived. Fine. Then Tesla covers the roof of their GigaFactory with solar cells and now the majority of the manufacturing power occurs from renewable sources. Same for battery manufacturing.

Or people assume one set of numbers for the current generation of lithium-ion batteries. While at the same time Tesla switches some models to lithium-iron-phosphate (which doesn't need nickel or cobalt), which again changes the calculus.

Then we Toyota and Nissan and others working on solid-state batteries with different properties. OneD, UC, and others are working on nanowire batteries that never wear out. And on.

As you say, it's "complex". But the race for faster, lighter, cheaper and better is on.