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The reason why EVs and ICEs are unlikely to peacefully co-exist because EVs are considered good and ICEs bad by the government and they have introduced polices to effect this.
There is no friction between petrol & diesel cars because it is a free choice by consumers - hence no conflict and peaceful co-existence. One may remember when government pushed diesels more few years back, citing low CO2 (but entirely ignoring NOx emission until several years later) there were similar friction in motoring forums comparing petrol and diesel.
I can understand mods' point of view ad revenue thing if site is viewed as anti-EV.
But this site is mostly used by motoring enthusiasts (like us) and I think a majority of them are pro-ICE bunch. I'd be interested to see if any factual data available to support this rather than anecdotal evidences.
On a separate note, anti-EV is a harsh term IMHO. When the term anti-vaxer was used to define anyone who is unwilling to take Covid vaccine it caused similar furore.
After 3rd/4th vaccines, majority of common public is no longer taking Covid vaccines. The government is neither actively pushing for any more vaccination.
Same thing can be said for Brexit too. Until UK left EU, there were furious debates whether Brexit is good or bad. But after few years later, Brexit debate died down because nobody could see any tangible benefits of Brexit as such.
This brings to a common theme - i.e. if government tries to push an agenda where there are sizeable population who is against it, there will be frictions and pro/anti views.
When all cars will become EVs, there will be another government backed agenda like old batteries are harmful for environment, so you must buy EVs with new battery technology which is better for environment (and penalize EV drivers with old battery tech).
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