Ironically free market advocates often are against pricing in externalities through things like a carbon tax. If we priced carbon appropriately decades ago then the market would look drastically different today and this new zero-emissions requirement wouldn't be needed.
If the government didn’t involve itself in any green energy, Tesla would not be profitable.[1]
[1] https://realmoney.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/tesla-s-mai...
Right... Unless you have something like an aggressive carbon tax (at the consumer level), why would the free market work? Climate Change is clearly a tragedy of the commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons)
The technology is clearly possible, but getting past a local equilibrium requires some energy.