Inevitability, you see, is when government spends money we don't have and passes laws that won't work to bribe or force people into buying cars they don't want.
Easy-peasey! Or as Marx put it for Business Insider in one of several dumbfoundingly unself-aware lines, “The transition to an all-EV future seemed like a slam dunk.” Yes, and a Rube Goldberg drawing is a model of elegant simplicity.
The transition from horses to cars became inevitable just as soon as the internal combustion engine was invented. A car you could park almost anywhere and fill up maybe once a week so that you could travel at then-blistering speeds of 20 miles per hour was so obviously superior to a slow-moving horse that lived in a barn and left horse manure everywhere that not one subsidy, tax break, or mandate was ever required.
The case for transitioning from gas-powered cars to electric cars isn't nearly so clear. Both power trains have their plusses and minuses, and, for most people, the minuses of EVs outweigh the plusses. If they didn't, none of the subsidies, tax breaks, or mandates would be required. That's what inevitability looks like.
Nevertheless, a coalition of kleptocrats, grifters, and liars was able to convince enough well-meaning fools that the transition to EVs was as inevitable as the move from horses to gas-powered cars.