Arguing EVs are "uninventing" the automobile is also just the No True Scotsman fallacy, writ large.

The internet was developed as a U.S. military project originally, and then further developed by taxpayer-funded universities, and the web was created by a guy on the taxpayer's dime -- Tim Berners-Lee -- at CERN.

Arguing a product is only legitimate if it comes about by purely private market forces is the height of ideological nonsense.