The other problem is that, If you run out of fuel people will pull over to help and go get a can for you and come back. If you run out of juice you have to get a towtruck to take you to a powerpoint. At the moment the best alternative in Thailand is LPG or CNG and even with them it has to be dual-fuel, and then there is the stigma of when you want to resell or trade up that the vehicle had gas on it, over here it will de-value the vehicle for resale, It's automatically thought of as a long haul or taxi. And as far as the government offering offsets for vehicles, Think about the repercussions of that from the 95% of people that cant afford or that type is not available to them to haul the products.
In Thailand there has been no mandated use of renewables or power saving lightbulbs etc, Yet They are gaining popularity and and expanding, and university students are inventing solar pond airaters, Solar panel installers are popping up everywhere, And a bad side might be that the rich 1% in Thailand are buying up farmland to place solar farms on them for profit.
The one thing that we all know for certain is that we need energy, to cook, to sanitize, to keep warm, we used to do it with with wood or dung and if everything ever goes to shit we will be doing it that way all over again.