Electric car climate control

[Nick]

I remain unconvinced.
I think an electric seat is no substitute for a cabin heater, I hate them and what they do to my rear end.
When I see a battery powered tractor pulling a 16 furrow plough through heavy clay soil for 10 hours a day without a break or a 30ft wide combine harvesting, then I will consider that there is a future for battery power.

That's rather "reducto ad absurdum", IMHO...

There are many steps on the way to change, and electric/hybrid driver-less cars & trucks are part of that process. We already have GPS-controlled, driver-less tractors.

There will come a time when combines & other heavy machinery will not be diesel, simply because they cannot be! Eventually, petrochemicals will become too scare or expensive (or both) to use for such tasks - necessity is the mother of invention - solutions will be found.