Burning fossil fuels is relatively simple and well understood by general public. Modern business strategies to squeeze every cent out of a customer that involves subscriptions, planned obsolescence, adding bizarre complexity for marginal gains are not helping. Buying a very expensive black box with questionable reliability, possible dependency on a manufacturer provided internet services (APIs for updating etc), questionable availability of parts and probably not really fixable by yourself or your local shop with rednecks with wrenches is not very appealing when you are living paycheck to paycheck.
This is the real answer.
A friend of my family is a carpenter who came from a very bad family situation, and is just climbing out of poverty. He has an old Chevy K1500 that gets him to and from work, with all his tools.
His transmission went, but he was able to find one at a local junkyard and swap it in over the course of a day and be back on the road for a few hundred dollars.
If you proposed this guy get a F-150 Lightning (or god forbid, a Cybertruck) to reduce his carbon emissions, he'd keel over laughing.