No they can’t.
EV’s are a great idea, nothing is wrong with powering something with electricity.
It’s been done since 1837 with trains and trolleys.
The problem is the battery. We need a less expensive, faster charging and longer lasting battery.
Without a new battery of some type EV’s are not the solution.
The battery and everything else about an EV would be a lot cheaper without the government subsidy.
All my $7,500 EV tax credit did was artificially inflate the price of the EV I bought. Basically I paid more up front so the government would give it back to me later in the hope that I'd think the government was doing me a favor. Even my fellow EV owners (most of whom are hard core leftists) can see it now.
As soon as the Inflation Raising Act was passed last year, EV prices went up for EV's made by car makers who previously didn't have a credit. (The old EV tax credit rule says a buyer couldn't get the tax credit if the EV maker had already sold 200K cars -- new EV's made by Tesla and GM didn't get the credit. The new law removes the 200K limit.) My EV would have received the old tax credit anyway, so my EV was already inflated $7,500 even before the Inflation Raising Act was passed.
About needing a "...faster charging and longer lasting battery."
At a fast road charger my EV takes 10-15 minutes to charge to 80%, which is a hair over 200 miles unless I want drive slower highway speeds or wait longer to charge past 80%. That's good enough for my wife and me since my wife likes to stop every 200 miles or so anyway to walk around. But to be honest, if I was to go on a trip without my wife I'd probably take my ICE pickup so I can go further than 200 miles between stops. Having both an EV and an ICE car gives us the best of both worlds. Too bad the Dims don't like us having options like that.
If they really want to power transportation electrically, electrify the roads and highways. We could drive hybrids for “offroad”. Gas vehicles on farms and really off roading. Do I think the US could afford this? I say yes, with all the wasted crap on green energy, they can build a Nuclear power plant for about 2 Billion dollars. For the cost of fighting an insane war in Ukraine, we could be building 50 Nuclear plants RIGHT NOW.
Hell, even if we electrified the highways and freeways, it would be both effecient and less expensive. Let cities do it themselves, or they can allow the free market to work, and allow people to install chargers for their commuter EV. More power to them, but LAY OFF MY GAS VEHICLE.