Elon Musk has built an industry-transforming enterprise with impressive technology. But the realities of electric vehicles are quite different for many fevered forecasts. Policymakers in dozens of countries have proposed banning the sale of conventional cars in a decade or so, in order to make way for an all-electric car future. Except that won’t happen

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