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Color me skeptical that anything real will be done about it. We haven't even managed to solve the same issue when it comes to things like IC manufacturing, clothing manufacturing, food production, etc., and they have been around a whole lot longer.
The nice thing about market activity is that we each have the power to make decisions about what is convenient. Upgrading the electrical service at my house to support charging would cost about as much as all the gas I've put into my car in the last 10 years. And about 1/4 of those miles are cross country (US) drives, where a charger at home wouldn't have done any good.
I have been parking on the street or in a carport for almost a decade. I'm not sure my cleaning lady, gardener, pest control guy, dental hygienist, taco truck owner, mail carriers, etc. have anywhere they can park overnight and charge a vehicle.
A huge number! We can start with almost 100% of people who live in apartment buildings.
The charging situation alone makes electric vehicles infeasible for me.
This is just a transitory timeframe. When gas cars were hitting the road there wasn't magically a gas station on every corner and a mechanic in every town. Just like always it's a bit of 'build it and they will come' and 'hurry up and build it already'.
Hell at my office there is already conversations happening with the building about providing power into the bicycle cage to top off e-bikes.
I could see this in new apartment buildings (at least the more expensive ones), but most apartment buildings aren't so new. With most of the existing ones I see around, adding chargers would be crazy expensive because you'd have to do a lot of concrete/asphalt work in order to install them. I don't see that happening except in the swankier buildings who have a budget.
Now trying to convince them to cover it with solar panels would be nice for my car :)
Sounds like incentivicing apartment buildings ev infra is a regularatory shortfall.
The cost of 1000 installations is extreme (especially if you have to tear up concrete and asphalt). Certainly more than any but perhaps higher-income housing can, or will, afford.
That's the whole point of the fuel economy and EV regulations. For better or worse, we don't really get to make those decisions.
Blood minerals will be for luxury uktralong range, etc. And even that is being addressed. And if sulfur chemistries hit production or solid state, look out
The article is indeed fud.
I suppose your f-150 style trucks and SUV fleets don't have to meet this standard (I think the 2023 f-150 is 26mpg, the 2023 Escape is 31mpg) perhaps being classified as 'work vehicles'. Given how many of these I see in personal use I feel like this loophole must be closed. Perhaps personal cars that do not meet the standard need some kind of per mile tax.
constructed entirely by someone paid to dress up their tooth-and-nail fight-to-the-death commitment to sunk cost investment and Teh Way of Life in the "sober, just asking questions" tone of a old rich white guy.
The fact that people can't even detect this extremely obvious propaganda (let alone downvote when it's pointed out to them) is a troubling sign of declining critical thinking faculty.