In general, we're trying to use the power of the government to force the market to shift away from gas vehicles and towards electric vehicles because climate change, caused in part by combustion engine vehicles, is real and present, and is such a huge, expensive danger that it's clearly worthwhile to make the move. Whatever the payment/repairability downsides that bad actors fit into the electric transition are, they are absolutely nothing compared to worldwide food shortages, mass migration from losing earth to rising sea levels, water shortages, etc.
Nobody wants the businesses to take this as a chance to once again hurt consumers and squeeze consumers for ever more money and ever less power. But the businesses are still trying to pull it off anyway. You're right, action against those terrible business practices is warranted.
Giving up on avoiding further climate change is not warranted.
Most people agree something should be done about climate change. Using it as an excuse for other stuff, for political and business gain, is one of the main reasons climate change is not being taken seriously. Fix the problem directly, don't use it as a boogeyman to tell people how to live or what to buy, and we could be way more successful at avoiding opposition. Unfortunately, the most vocal people see climate change almost solely as a means of getting power rather than something to actually try and overcome. Equating not wanting freedom to use something you buy with giving up on climate change does not help, it makes people more entrenched in their views
What if I told you "climate do nothingism" chicanery of the last 40-50 years was almost entirely driven by business interests and political silly buggers with reams of evidence from internal company memos proving as such?
Nobody wants the businesses to take this as a chance to once again hurt consumers and squeeze consumers for ever more money and ever less power. But the businesses are still trying to pull it off anyway. You're right, action against those terrible business practices is warranted.
Giving up on avoiding further climate change is not warranted.