I can't really think of any time when a government bannned something and it didn't produce some sort of unintended consequence(s).

Will the trade off of reduced smog be worth the issues with pollution in the mining operations and production of batteries? Coming from the UK amd France I can hardly see this as anything more than a push for centralization and control in the guise of environmentalism.

We certainly need to be good stewards of this planet it is the only one we have last time I looked.

I just don't see bans as being a positve especially the extremely poor countries that rely on inexpensive transportation such as in Asia and Africa.