The logical answer here is to make the EV mandate tied to actual infrastructure build-out milestones then. Build the infrastructure then mandate EVs, rather than mandating EVs and hoping that infrastructure gets built out quickly enough.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Trick question: You need both.
It’s not realistic to build the infrastructure first, then transition: no one could afford that. It would be a huge waste and a boondoggle.
However I do think it was well planned: even the Chinese government would be surprised at our planning…… if we had actually followed through.
In addition to the decades long transition, there was
subsidies for car manufacturers to retool and retrain
incentives for EV buyers
incentives for home charger installers, from consumer to landlord to business
infrastructure money to start building out trip chargers along interstates
So yes, the infrastructure would have grown with the market, more smoothly than the market alone could have. Yes American companies would have solid business advantages in new technologies. Yes, American car companies would still be relevant at that point
The logical answer here is to make the EV mandate tied to actual infrastructure build-out milestones then. Build the infrastructure then mandate EVs, rather than mandating EVs and hoping that infrastructure gets built out quickly enough.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Trick question: You need both.
It’s not realistic to build the infrastructure first, then transition: no one could afford that. It would be a huge waste and a boondoggle.
However I do think it was well planned: even the Chinese government would be surprised at our planning…… if we had actually followed through.
In addition to the decades long transition, there was
So yes, the infrastructure would have grown with the market, more smoothly than the market alone could have. Yes American companies would have solid business advantages in new technologies. Yes, American car companies would still be relevant at that point