Values of simple, reliable, easy to maintain and overall cost effective classics will increase as governments push for electric vehicles. Even more so as they simultaneously reject clean nuclear power given all the fearmongering and appeasing the NIMBY types. Even if batteries were practical so far as capacity to weight ratios and economically viable, power generation will continue to be an issue with high adoption rates. These largely coal fired electric vehicles are dirty and polluting over their whole lifetime. Beyond the pollution of creating the disposable vehicle and batteries that have a short life and are largely not recyclable at all or in any economically viable way, there is the child labor and general poor working conditions (and subsequent low life expectancy) in the cobalt and lithium mines to make the batteries.
Of course the cost of such electric vehicles is insane. Most people can't afford (whether they know it or not) $40k-$60k for an electric vehicle that only has a 5-7 year lifespan at best before destined for the landfill. As new models come out, companies won't make batteries. Maybe eventually there will be a modular and standardized packaging for batteries so they are interchangeable, but that's not here currently and companies tend to try for proprietary (i.e. most power tool battery is just some number of 18650 cells, packaged to only fit a particular brand).
Eric Peters writes regularly about the many cold hard truths about electric vehicles, and particularly the politicians push to force them on the masses (while subsidizing the rich individuals and companies that make them, such as the US President who is chauffeured around in a massively heavy 5 MPG vehicle and always followed by many other horribly inefficient vehicles). He also writes about classic cars and bikes, among other automotive related things.
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/category/politics/Electric bikes will never replace motorcycles in our lifetime. Battery capacity isn't there and will not be, nor is the ability to quickly recharge. One guy at work who lives a few miles away got one of those electric pedalcycles. It works for him, goes 30 MPH flat out, and can be pedaled when the battery runs out or to extend battery runtime. There are practical applications for such things, hybrid bicycles and hybrid cars can make economic sense now. Electric everything (coal fired everything) as government tries to force, not so much. Good ideas don't require coercion, or subsidization as it is now with the poor subsidizing rich people toy electric cars. The tech and infrastructure isn't there yet for such things to be economically viable or have a lower environmental impact.
